Man Who Was Neighbour to Air India Plane Crash Victim Shares What He Gave Him Before Death

Man Who Was Neighbour to Air India Plane Crash Victim Shares What He Gave Him Before Death

  • A man has said he knows one of the families that perished in the Air India plane crash that happened on June 12, 2025
  • According to the man, one of the victims and his family, who all died in the tragedy, were his next-door neighbours
  • He noted that before the man travelled to India to bring his wife and children, he gave him a gift, which he showed in the video he posted

A man who lives in the UK said one of the families who died in the Air India plane crash were his next-door neighbours.

He said he knows the family very well and even knows their temple, but sadly, he won't be seeing them again as they perished in the tragic Ahmedabad plane crash that happened on Thursday, June 12, 2025.

Man shows what Air India plane plane crash victim gave him before dying.
Man claims a family who died in the Air India crash were his neighbours. Photo credit: X/JIX5A, theskindoctor13 and Getty Images/Aaron Foster.
Source: UGC

In a video reposted by @JIX5A, the man showed the photo of Dr Pratik Joshi, his wife, Dr Komi Vyas, and their three children.

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According to him, the man had given him a gift before he travelled to India to bring his wife and children.

The couple had died alongside their three children when making the journey to fulfil their dream of finally living together in the UK. They never made it as the flight went down at Ahmedabad, killing 241 people onboard.

Josh's wife, Dr Komi Vyas, lived in India, where she worked at the Pacific Hospital in Udaipur. She lived with her children.

However, she had resigned from her job at the hospital two days before, expecting to move to the UK with her family.

The man said:

"My next door neighbours were on that Air India flight. Here is a picture of them here. They live next to me for a couple of years. I have just read in the BBC. It has been confirmed by their temple as well.

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"They say that it is the largest family that have succumbed on that flight. Absolutely devastating news. I'm heartbroken, honestly. They were the nicest family. When they lived here, their kids were just babies, I could hear them through the wall. They had the cutest little cries. They were tiny.
"They lived here for two years. He was planning on bringing the whole family back. That was what they were doing on that flight, him and his wife and their three kids. It has been confirmed by the hospital as well that it was him.
"The day he left, they all came around, knocked on the door, with a big bag. Here was one of the things he gave us. Heartbreaking!"
Man says he knows one of the families that died in Air India plane crash.
UK-based man shares photo of the gift Dr Joshi gave, an Air India crash victim, gave to him before the flight. Photo credit: X/X/JIX5A, theskindoctor13.
Source: Twitter

Watch the video below:

Six dead after plane crash in US

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a mother and her little child who had just undergone life-saving surgery were inside the plane that crashed in Philadelphia earlier in the year.

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The incident came days after a military Black Hawk flew into a civilian aircraft in Washington DC, US.

Donald Trump had reacted to both tragic events that claimed many lives, while investigations were launched into the incidents.

Proofreading by Funmilayo Aremu, copy editor at Legit.ng.

Source: Legit.ng

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