{"id":72362,"date":"2025-06-14T00:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/she-was-a-wonder-relatives-mourn-victims-of-air-india-plane-crash"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:44:31","slug":"she-was-a-wonder-ahmedabad-reels-amid-aftermath-of-air-india-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72362","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She was a wonder\u2019: Ahmedabad reels amid aftermath of Air India plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True scale of tragedy still unfolding as accounts from family members of those onboard begin to emerge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/saw-people-dying-british-survivor-describes-air-india-plane-crash\">\u2018I saw people dying in front of my eyes\u2019: British survivor describes Air India crash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As he dropped off his only daughter at Ahmedabad airport, Suraj Mistry seized the opportunity to take one final family selfie before she went back to London. Kinal Mistry, 24, had laughed lovingly at her father as he made her promise that they would meet again soon. \u201cYes, Daddy, very soon,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the photo \u2013 of Kinal smiling beside her mother and father \u2013 would commemorate the last time his family was a whole. In scenes of horror that have since reverberated around the world, just a few minutes after the flight took off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning, it plummeted from the sky, exploding in an inferno of fire and black smoke. Only one of the 242 people onboard survived.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/she-was-a-wonder-relatives-mourn-victims-of-air-india-plane-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True scale of tragedy still unfolding as accounts from family members of those onboard begin to emerge\u2018I saw people dying in front of my eyes\u2019: British survivor describes Air India crashAs he dropped off his only daughter at Ahmedabad airport, Suraj Mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3341,62,931,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","category-india","category-plane-crashes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72362\/revisions\/72363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}