One man, Chirag Mahesh Patel, recalled the last chat he had with his mother, Manju, before she boarded the ill-fated Air India flight that killed 241 passengers.

The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash escaped the fiery wreckage through an emergency door, he said — while one of his brothers was among the more than 240 killed, despite being just seats away.

The son of a British-Indian woman who died in the Air India plane crash has revealed he missed her last phone call, made just hours before she boarded the ill-fated flight. Manju Mahesh Patel, 79, had been sitting in seat 12D,