They smiled for a selfie just before takeoff. A new life was waiting. And then—nothing.
Pratik Joshi had spent six years in London building a future. Every paycheck, every missed festival back home, every form filled—it was all for one thing: to bring his wife Komi and their three little ones to the UK. A new chapter. A real beginning.
This week, it was finally happening. Komi had resigned from her hospital job. The family packed up. Said goodbye. On June 12, they boarded Air India Flight 171 out of Ahmedabad, bound for London via Mumbai. That photo they took—it was full of hope. You can see it in their eyes.
But just minutes after takeoff, the plane went down. No one survived. Five lives gone. A whole future—just gone.
And now the wreckage is being examined, questions being asked. But there’s no report that can explain this. No technical fault that undoes the heartbreak.
He waited six years to bring them over. They barely made it six minutes into the sky.