In brief
Family members of victims travelling to India for support and to learn more about the disaster.
Heidi Moran, an organizer for the Ramsgate Pride festival in England, received heartbreaking news about her friends Jamie and Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek through a social media message. Their names were confirmed on the passenger manifest of the ill-fated Air India Flight AI171 that crashed while en route to London. The couple, who had recently married and were on a spiritual retreat in India, were expected at the festival, making the shocking news even more difficult to bear. They are among the 241 casualties of the crash, which also resulted in dozens of additional fatalities when the aircraft collided with a dining hall for medical students in Ahmedabad. As the grim process of body recovery and identification continues, families are feeling the urgency to travel to India, over 4,000 miles away, to be with their loved ones during this tragic time. The unexpected tragedy has rocked the U.K. community, prompting a wave of grief and the search for answers as relatives grapple with the immense loss.
