Gujarat Plain Crash: 9,300 hours of Flying Experience between Captain Manning Flight and his co-pilot | Bharat News

An hour before takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, Captain Sumate Sabarwal called home and told his family that he would play again after reaching London. This was not to happen. His last call was for air traffic control before the AI171 crashed and burnt. A senior pilot, Sabarwal, had 8,200 flight hours, said the aviation regulator DGCA. However, a senior colleague said that his flight experience would be very high. The associate said, “The regulator’s EGCA platform is quite new and cannot be fully recorded.” “He was a very good, calm person who flew the Airbus A310, Boeing 777 and B787. He put his head down and was a hardworking worker.” The co-pilot Clive Kundar had an experience of 1,100 hours of flight. The command of a commercial aircraft requires at least 1,500 hours; Helping Sabarwal, the Kundar was the first flight officer in a flight of about 10 hours. Expressing grief over the tragedy, actor Vikrant Massey wrote on Instagram, “There is more pain to know that my uncle, Clifford Kundar lost his son …” Many positions on social media mourned Kundar’s death and highlighted their roots in Mangaluru.