Kin: Her phone kept ringing after crash

'She was very scared of plane crash'

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IMPHAL: Kongbrailatpam Nganthoi Sharma's worst fear came true on Thursday as the London-bound flight on which she was a cabin crew member, crashed in Ahmedabad, even though her family clings to hope as her mobile phone is still switched on and is receiving signals but nobody is responding to their repeated calls.

Twenty-year-old Nganthoi, who was a cabin crew member for the last three years, was among the 242 people onboard Air India Flight AI 171, which crashed minutes after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad in the afternoon.

Many casualties are feared but the fate of the cabin crew member from Manipur's Thoubal district was not yet known.