A passenger jet waiting to take off from Ahmedabad’s airport, which is hemmed in by urban development in the city. — The New York Times
BHAVESH Patni had just sat down to a lunch of eggplant and potato curry with his family when an Air India plane roared off the runway behind their home, flew overhead and crashed into a medical college campus just visible from their building.
As Patni climbed to the terrace to watch the flames from the disaster that would claim 241 lives on board and at least 34 on the ground in the city of Ahmedabad, he shuddered at how close his family had come to catastrophe.
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