Two doctors and their children snapped a heartbreaking final selfie onboard the doomed Air India plane just moments before disaster struck.
The picture was taken to celebrate ‘new beginnings’ as Komi Vyas, a doctor who worked in Udaipur, had quit her job and was moving to join her husband, Dr Prateek Joshi, in London, with their three children.
But, tragically, the family are among the at least 241 dead after the Gatwick-bound aircraft crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad Airport in the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat yesterday.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner careened back down to earth in the densely populated Meghani area of the city just minutes after leaving the runway around 1.40pm local time (8.10am BST).
The plane carried 242 passengers but at least 260 people, including some victims on the ground, are thought to have died.
The selfie, taken by Dr Joshi, shows him and his wife seated on one side, smiling, and their young twin boys and elder daughter sitting across the aisle, also with huge grins on their faces.
The couple’s twin boys – Nakul and Pradyut – were five years old and their daughter, Miraya, was eight.
Dr Joshi’s cousin, Nayan said: ‘They left for Ahmedabad yesterday to take the flight to London. Prateek had come here just two days ago to take his wife and children with him.
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