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UNBELIEVABLE: How deadly air india crash shattered dreams wiped out entire families - The Untold Story

Grieving women outside Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, where the dead and wounded from Thursday's Air India plane crash were taken [Marhaba Hilali/Al Jazeera]

Ahmedabad, India — For the Patel family, April was a month of answered prayers.

The news arrived in a simple email: their son, Sahil Patel, had won a visa lottery. He was one of 3,000 Indians chosen by a random ballot for a coveted two-year United Kingdom work visa, under the British government’s India Young Professionals Scheme.

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