The flight was bound for England, where family and friends of some of the 241 victims on board, including 52 British nationals, were left searching for answers.

Vishwashkumar, who was sitting in seat 11a on the Air India flight, is receiving treatment at Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital, where he has been visited by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who also attended the bedside of locals who were not onboard the plane but were struck and injured by the crash.

An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad. Authorities fear no survivors.