In Air India crash, canteen worker hopes for 'second miracle'


FILE PHOTO: Debris lies in a medical college hostel canteen after an Air India aircraft, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, crashed there after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) -Around 30 minutes before an Air India jet crashed into a college hostel in India, Ravi Thakor, the cook in the hostel canteen, and his wife stepped out to deliver lunchboxes - leaving behind their two-year-old daughter and his mother.

The grandmother and child are missing. Thakor is hoping for what he calls a "second miracle", one like the astonishing survival of the sole passenger among the 242 people on board the plane.

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