Canteen cook hopes for 'second miracle' as mum, child remain missing

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

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

The grandmother and child are missing.

Mr 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.

Mr Thakor said he first thought the loud bang he heard when the plane crashed on June 12 in the western city of Ahmedabad was a gas cylinder blast, but soon noticed the building he had just left was engulfed in flames.