A sombre crowd gathered outside a residential building in Mumbai’s Powai locality as 88-year-old Pushkarraj Sabharwal, with trembling hands and moist eyes, stood in silence to bid a final farewell to his son, Captain Sumit Sabharwal, the pilot of the ill-fated Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12. The veteran aviator’s mortal remains were handed over to the family on Monday. A video from the scene shows the grieving father folding his hands and watching his son’s coffin with quiet, devastating sorrow. The dignified but heartbreaking gesture left many in tears.
