Parents mourn as body of Air India pilot returns to Mumbai

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The parents of Sumeet Sabharwal, one of the pilots aboard the ill-fated Air India 171 flight, mourned his loss as his body was brought home to Mumbai on Tuesday (June 17).  Sabharwal was the senior pilot on board the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which crashed in India's western Ahmedabad with 242 on board.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The parents of Sumit Sabharwal, one of the pilots aboard the ill-fated Air India 171 flight,

00:08mourned his loss as his body was brought home to Mumbai on Tuesday.

00:12Sabharwal was the senior pilot on board the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner,

00:18which crashed in India's western Ahmedabad with 242 on board.

00:23A large crowd gathered as his coffin was carried over to an ambulance ahead of his burial.

00:28The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, with 242 people on board, bound for Gatwick Airport south of London,

00:37began losing height seconds after take-off in Ahmedabad on Thursday

00:40and erupted in a huge fireball as it hit buildings below.

00:44All but one on board were declared dead in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade,

00:49and around 30 people died on the ground.

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