A woman who died in the Air India Flight AI171 crash did not want to leave her 8-year-old son before she went on a weeks-long trip to India, her colleague said.

It seemed impossible, but shortly after news broke that an Air India flight had crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, video started circulating on social media showing a man walking from the scene in a bloodstained shirt.

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Emergency worker Satinder Singh Sandhu described how he desperately called out to Vishwash Ramesh after spotting him trying to go back into the burning wreckage of Flight 171

Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam and Lamnunthem Singson were members of the crew of the flight that plunged to the ground in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff.

The Air India plane crash that led to the death of over 240 passengers on Thursday has plunged the airline into its biggest crisis yet and will pose a significant challenge to its efforts to revamp its reputation and fleet.

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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, carrying 242 passengers including 53 British nationals, crash-landed in Ahmedabad on June 12.