Mourners gathered on Tuesday for the funeral of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, one of two pilots at the helm of the Air India flight bound for London Gatwick that crashed just outside Ahmedabad airport last week.
All but one of AI171’s 242 passengers and crew died after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner came down within 30 seconds of take-off, crashing into a building housing trainee medics at a major medical college. Only one passenger survived, and at least 29 people on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.
