Dear MEL Topic Readers,
'Traffic saved me': Student missed Air India crash by just 10 minutes
On June 11, Air India flight AI171 bound for London Gatwick crashed only
moments after takeoff in Ahmedabad, western India, at 13:39 local time. All of the
12 crew members and 241 passengers onboard the flight were killed but one. The
sole survivor on board was a 40-year-old British man of Indian origin who was
seated in economy class seat 11A. Surprisingly, there was another lucky person
who did not die in the crash. An Indian student who lives in Bristol had been visiting
western India for a holiday. She was scheduled to fly the same flight and was assigned
to seat 36G. However, she arrived at the airport 10 minutes late to board the
plane due to heavy traffic and missed the flight. After she left the airport sadly,
she learned that the airplane had gone down. There may be similar or opposite stories
like these in the building that the airplane crashed into.
Read the article and learn about two people who survived the
crashed Air India flight.
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