A woman who died in the Air India Flight AI171 crash did not want to leave her 8-year-old son before she went on a weeks-long trip to India, her colleague said.

Addressing a gathering of around 700 airline employees, Chandrasekaran, also known as Chandra, stated that while he has witnessed several crises in his life, the airline crash was the "most heartbreaking one," a Tata Group spokesperson stated, citing Chandra.

Sunny Patel and his wife, Monali Patel are being mourned by their family as they were part of those who died in the Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad.

On June 12, the London-bound aircraft crashed into the nearby campus of a medical college in Meghani Nagar area and burst into flames, moments after it took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad.