Air India plane crash | Majority of crew members were residents of Mumbai

Mumbai: Majority of the crew members of the ill-fated Air India’s state-of-the-art Dreamliner commercial jet including the two pilots stayed in the financial capital of Mumbai - one of the busiest aviation hubs.

The two-member technical crew - Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain (LTC), had 8,200 hours of flying experience while he was assisted by First Officer Clive Kunder, who had logged 1,100 flying hours.

“The pilots had a combined flying experience of 9,300 hours,” according to officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

The two senior cabin crew members have been identified as Shradha Dhavan and Aparna Mahadik.

The other cabin crew members were Saineeta Chakravarti, Nganthoi Kongbrailatpam Sharma, Deepak Pathak, Maithili Patil, Irfan Shaikh, Lamnunthem Singson, Roshni Songhare Rajendra and Manisha Thapa.

Aparna Mahadik (42), resident of Goregaon, is a relative of Maharashtra NCP President Sunil Tatkare, the MP from Raigad. “Aparna is the daughter-in-law of my younger sister. Her family lives in Goregaon in Mumbai," said Tatkare, a former minister.

Clive originally hails from Mangaluru but now stayed in Mumbai.

Clive had trained at Paris Air Inc, a Florida-based flight training institute, and had clocked 1,100 hours of flying experience.

Two cabin crew members were from the north-eastern state of Manipur - Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam of Thoubal Awang Leika and Lamnunthem Singson - Churachandpur district.

Maithili Patil (23) is a resident of Panvel in Raigad district while Deepak Pathak is a resident of Badlapur in Thane district.

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal stayed in Powai.