Air India confirmed tonight that 241 of the 242 people aboard flight AI171 died in the crash.
Miracle British survivor Viswashkumar Ramesh, who was flying alongside his brother, remembers ‘a loud noise…then the plane crashed’.
The Boeing was not much more than 400ft above ground when the two experienced pilots onboard apparently lost power in both engines.
They then had 17 agonising seconds to wrestle with the controls before their state-of-the-art plane smashed into a medical college packed with doctors, sending a fireball soaring into the sky.
Distressing video footage shows the jet’s fateful last moments as it rapidly lost altitude and speed, which would have filled the cockpit with a cacophony of terrifying alarms.
Captain Sabharwal and Clive Kundar, his co-pilot with 1,100 hours of experience, issued a desperate mayday call warning the plane was ‘losing power’.
The footage appears to show them hopelessly trying to nudge up the nose of their sinking aircraft moments before the devastating impact.
Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who had 8,200 hours of flying experience, desperately cried ‘Mayday…no thrust, losing power, unable to lift’ before the aircraft went down and hit a residential property
Officer Clive Kunder, from Mumbai, was also on the doomed Air India flight that crashed moments after take-off
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