Akash Vatsa
Credit: X/@akku92
A man who flew from Delhi to Ahmedabad in the same Air India aircraft two hours before it crashed shortly after takeoff from the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday.
The Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner (VT-ANB) aircraft was carrying 242 passengers and crew members. The passengers comprised 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian national.
The passenger who had travelled in the same Air India aircraft before the crash, claimed that he noticed unusual things about it.
In a post on X, the person named Akash Vatsa wrote, "I was in the same damn flight 2 hours before it took off from AMD. I came in this from DEL-AMD. Noticed unusual things in the place. Made a video to tweet to @airindia i would want to give more details. Please contact me. @flyingbeast320 @aajtak @ndtv @Boeing_In #planecrash #AI171."
In a reply to his own post, he shared a picture of his boarding pass and said, "People who wanted to check the credibility. Here's my boarding pass. Man, why would I firstly record video of the same plane and then post it?"
At least five MBBS students, one PG resident doctor and the wife of a superspecialist doctor of the BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad were killed and over 60 medical students injured due to the crash, the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) claimed.
The search was also on for the aircraft's black box -- the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder -- for clues to understand what happened in the last crucial moments of the doomed flight to London's Gatwick airport.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met those injured in the plane crash at the civil hospital in Ahmedabad.
He also met Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the tragedy in which 265 people lost their lives on Thursday.
Modi visited the C7 ward of the hospital, where 25 injured people are undergoing treatment.