00:00Smiling in their last moments.
00:02Dr. Couple, their three kids took smiling selfie moments before Air India crash,
00:07just hours before the Air India plane crash.
00:10A smiling selfie showed Dr. Pradek Joshi, his wife Dr. Komi Vyas,
00:14and their three young children on Air India flight AI-171,
00:19ready to start a new life in London.
00:21Minutes later, the plane crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad,
00:25killing all five family members.
00:28Prajute and Nakul were twins.
00:30Komi Vyas, who worked at a private hospital,
00:32shared a picture on social media of the family as they sat on the plane,
00:36the couple smiling and the three children in the frame behind sitting in another row,
00:40facing the camera, and I reported.
00:43Just hours before the tragedy, a smiling selfie showed Dr. Pradek Joshi,
00:48his wife Dr. Komi Vyas, and their three young children on Air India flight AI-171,
00:54ready to start a new life in London.
00:56Minutes later, the plane crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad,
01:00killing all five family members.
01:04A London-bound Boeing 787-8 aircraft crashed into a medical college complex
01:09and erupted into flames shortly after taking off from Sardar Vallabhapai,
01:13Patel International Airport, on Thursday,
01:15killing 241 of the 242 people on board in one of the country's worst air disasters.
01:23Dr. Pradek Joshi had been living in London for six years,
01:26building a career and planning a future for his family.
01:28His wife, Dr. Komi Vyas, a respected physician at Pacific Hospital in Udaipur,
01:35resigned just two days before the trip to finally reunite the family abroad,
01:39according to reports.
01:41Their children, five-year-old twin boys Nakul and Pradek,
01:46and eight-year-old daughter Mariah,
01:48were excited to begin a new life in London.
01:51Neighbors and friends remember the couple not just for their achievements,
01:54but for their kindness and progressive values.
01:56The whole town is in shock, a close family friend told.
02:01News 18.
02:02They were a warm, aspirational couple who wanted the best for their kids.
02:06Meanwhile, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB,
02:10a federal agency responsible for investigating civil aviation accidents,
02:14is preparing to send a team to India to assist with the probe
02:17into the deadly Ahmedabad plane crash.
02:20Tata Group Owned Air India has set up a dedicated passenger.
02:23Helpline?
02:251800-5691-444 for callers in India,
02:29and PLUS-91-8062779-2-Hornsaren for those calling from abroad.
02:35The Tata Group has also announced a compensation of RS-1 crore
02:39for the families of each person who lost their life in the crash,
02:42A&I reported.
02:43A&I reported.
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