Ahmedabad plane crash: Pilot Captain Sumit Sabharwal, who lost his life in the plane crash of Air India in Ahmedabad, was given a final farewell today (Tuesday). During this time, his 90-year-old father Pushkarraj Sabharwal cried in trouble. Everyone’s eyes were moist. Pushkarraj folded the body for some time and prayed for some time. During this time wept bitterly. His daughter was seen tied to him.

Earlier, Sabharwal’s body was placed in a coffin and brought from Ahmedabad to Mumbai Airport in the morning. After this, members of Sabharwal’s family took the dead body to his residence in Jal Vayu Vihar in Powai.

Local people paid tribute

Many friends, relatives and local residents of Sabharwal (56) gathered outside their residence to pay tribute. Businessman Niranjan Hiranandani and local MLA Dilip Lande were among those who reached his residence to pay tribute to Sabharwal.

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The official said that later the body vehicle took away the body of the pilot and left for the Chakla Electrical crematorium. Sabharwal (56) lived in Mumbai with his elderly parents.

Air India aircraft (AI-171), going to London, crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, in which 242 passengers and crew members were aboard. The aircraft crashed in a medical college campus, except a passenger in it, everyone died.

Other 29 people present in the medical college campus also died. The aircraft was commanded by Captain Sabharwal and his associate First Officer Clive Kunder. The DGCA had earlier stated in a statement that Sabharwal had 8,200 hours of flight experience, while Kundar had 1,100 hours of flight experience.

Ahmedabad air india plane crash: Captain Sumit Sabharwal called at his house from the International Airport in Ahmedabad a hour before the takeoff. He had told his family that when he reached London, he would call again, but this could not happen.

Captain Sumit Sabharwal could not talk to his family again after this. He had controlled air traffic before the last call Air India flight A1-171 crashed. According to the DGCA, Captain Sumit Sabharwal was an LTC and he had an 8200 -hour experience of flying aircraft. His co-pilot had an 1100-hour flight experience.

What did Captain Sabharwal’s colleague tell?
A senior colleague of Captain Sabharwal said that his experience of flying flight was much more than this. He said that the EGCA platform of DGCA is quite new and may not have those records in it. He further said that Captain Sumit Sabharwal was a very good and quiet person who also flew Airbus A310, Boeing 777 and B-787. He could easily blow flight with his head down, he was very hardworking.

Who was C-Pilot Clive Kundar?
Captain Sumit was handling the command of Air India’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner Plane AI-171. Clive Kundar, who was a co-poilet, was helping Sumit and had an 1100-hour flight experience. Clive Kunder was a actor Vikrant Masi’s cousin. On his death, the actor expressed grief and wrote that even more sad to know that my uncle Clifford Kunder lost his son Clive Kunder, who was unfortunately the first officer working on a flight. May God give you the power to bear sorrows to you, your family and all the affected people.

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