Among them were 53 Britons.

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the pilot of Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787 departing from Ahmedabad, India, is one of the people thought to have perished.

The pilot of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was identified as Mr. Sabharwal, who possessed 8,200 hours of expertise.

Co-pilot Clive Kunder, a Mumbai native, had finished his training at the Paris Air Flight School in Florida and had 1,100 flying hours under his belt.

It was also disclosed that Lamnunthem Singson and Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam were part of the cabin crew.

The crew also included Saineeta Chakravarti, Deepak Pathak, Maithili Patil, Irfan Shaikh, Roshni Songhare Rajendra, Manisha Thapa, and senior members Shradha Dhavan and Aparna Mahadik.

As the identities of those believed killed in Thursday’s tragedy were revealed, family members were seen sobbing uncontrollably.

It has now come to light