Grandfather of missing Malaysia Airlines passenger was killed in 1973 plane crash
The family of Muktesh Mukherjee, a passenger on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, are praying that disaster has not struck twice. The 42-year-old’s grandfather was killed in a plane crash on the outskirts of New Delhi in 1973.
The family of Muktesh Mukherjee, a passenger on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, are praying that disaster has not struck twice.
The 42-year-old’s grandfather, a former Indian government minister, was killed in a plane crash on the outskirts of New Delhi in 1973.
“Miracles do happen. We pray it will happen this time and Muktesh will come back to us,” his uncle Manoj Mukherjee told AFP in the Indian city of Kolkata.
Muktesh, an Indian-born Canadian who works for US firm XCoal in Beijing, was heading home on flight MH370 with his Chinese wife Xiaomo Bai.
Just days ago she posted photos on Facebook of an idyllic coastal resort in Vietnam, where the couple were holidaying. Other recent photos show their two small sons laughing as they played in the snow in Beijing.
The uncle said family members were flying from India to Beijing to take care of the boys, who did not join their parents on the trip.