A filmmaker from Ahmedabad, who was near the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at the time of the crash of Air India Flight AI 171, has prompted his family to submit DNA samples.
A resident of Naroda, Mahesh Kalawadia, had gone to an acquaintance at Law Garden area that afternoon, media reports quoted his wife, Hetal.
The family’s search has proved futile. More than 270 people, including 241 onboard, were charred to death in the accident and several others are injured.
Hetal said that the police informed her that his phone was located 700 meters from the crash site and went off a minute after the flight took off.
“My husband called me at 1.14 p.m. to tell me his meeting is over and that he is on his way home. However, when he did not return, I called up on his phone but it was switched off. After police was intimated, the last location of his mobile phone showed he was 700 metres away from the crash site,” Hetal was quoted.
“His phone got switched off around 1.40 pm (a minute after the ill-fated flight took off). His scooter and mobile phone are missing. All this is unusual since he would never use that route (as per the last location) to come home. We have submitted DNA samples to check if he was one of those killed on the ground due to the crash,” she added.
So far, bodies of 47 victims have been handed over to the families.
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