Air India plane crash pilot ‘saved dozens of lives’ at apartment blocks by diverting jet at the last second’

The captain of doomed Air India Flight 171 has been praised for saving dozens of lives by guiding the jet away from a row of apartment blocks moments before impact.

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, an experienced pilot with more than 8,200 hours in the cockpit, was at the controls when his Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London Gatwick crashed seconds after leaving India’s Ahmedabad airport on Thursday.

He and co-pilot First Officer Clive Kunder placed a mayday call, but they had little over a minute after the engines lost power before ploughing into the..…READ ORIGINAL & FULL CONTENT HERE