Body of co-pilot in Konzikod aircraft crash reaches Mathura


Mathura, Mortal remains of Air India co-pilot Akhilesh Sharma, who died in the aircraft crash at Konzikod airport on Friday night reached here on Sunday morning.The family members of the pilot have demanded that Akhilesh should be given the status of a martyr as he had saved the lives of hundreds of passengers by sacrifice his life.The pregnant wife of the pilot and his mother fainted while seeing the body while other relatives too could not stop their tears.A team of doctors were keeping track of the health of the wife of the deceased who is set to give birth to her first child within a week time, family members said. The body of the 32-year-old Akhilesh, who got married just two years back, was kept at his house in Govindnagar area.The cremation of the body would be held in the afternoon on the banks of the Yamuna river

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