One of the victims in the Ahmedabad plane crash, Ranjitha Gopakumaran, was a native of Pathanamthitta district in Kerala who worked as a nurse in the United Kingdom.
Pathanamthitta district collector Prem Krishnan S said Ranjitha was on the ill-fated flight, and that her death had been confirmed after verifying all details.
Ranjitha, 42, worked as a nurse in the United Kingdom and hailed from Pullad village in the district. She is survived by her husband, Vineesh, two school-going children, Rithika and Induchoodan, and her mother, Thulasi.
According to panchayat member Johnson Thomas, “Ranjitha came home from the UK three days ago. She got the job of a nurse in the state health service, but had come home on a short leave to oversee the construction of her new house.”
Since she moved to the UK around a year ago, she had been wanting to complete her job contract there. “She planned to return to Kerala and work with the state health service,” said the member.
Before moving to the UK, Ranjitha worked as a nurse in Oman for eight years. Her husband, too, had been in Oman, but later returned to Kerala, while Renjitha flew to the UK.
On Wednesday, Ranjitha left home by a train to Kochi, from where she flew to to catch the flight to London.
The Air India aircraft with 242 people on board crashed into a residential area near the Ahmedabad airport minutes after take-off on Thursday afternoon.
