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Canada Standard
14-06-2025
- Canada Standard
Gujarat: Parents of Air India flight crash victim demand investigation into incident
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], June 14 (ANI): The parents of Roger Christian, one of the victims in the AI 171 plane crash, on Friday demanded a thorough investigation into the incident. They said that their son wanted to take them to Europe and promised to have them travel to different countries too. Roger's father, David Christian, requested the government to investigate the incident and ensure strict action against the people responsible. He also said that such an incident should not be repeated so that another family does not lose their sons or daughters. 'We urge the administration to investigate this. We have lost our son and daughter-in-law but we request that this should not happen to anyone, so strict action should be taken against whoever is guilty,' he told ANI here. The father also recounted dropping off his son and daughter-in-law to the airport, and talking afterwards, with him saying that he spoke to Roger at 1:15 PM, just a few minutes before the takeoff, and the subsequent accident. 'They had reached here on Saturday and were here for five days. They had their flight, and I had gone to the airport to see them off. After their clearances around 11-11.15 am, they asked me to return home as their flight would have left only after 1.30 pm. So, I returned home. I called them up around 1.15 pm. My son told me that they are seated and they would take off in 15 minutes,' he said. However, he first got to know about the crash through a relative. Later on, both parents went to the hospital to try to find the couple, and only got to know about their demise. 'I returned home. I called them up around 1.15 pm. My son told me that they are seated and they would take off in 15 my nephew asked me when Roger and Rachna left for London. When I told him, he told me that the plane had crashed...I then switched on my TV and saw that it was the same flight. We went to the airport,' he said. The father said that they only got confirmation of the deaths later in the evening, adding, 'The airport officials told us that there was nothing there. They told us to go to the Civil Hospital. At the hospital, we inquired in every ward. By then, we didn't know that everyone onboard died. We could not find them anywhere. Later in the evening, our relatives told us that nobody survived the had told me to visit him and that he would take me to Switzerland and everywhere else; he had promised me that.' Roger David Christian and his wife Rachna Roger Christian were visiting their family in Chandkheda area of Ahmedabad had come to the country for just five days. The couple were traveling back to London when Air India flight AI 171 crashed near Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, killing them along with 239 others. Roger Christian's mother, Sarla Christian said that his son was a man of few words but always took his parents to different places. She told ANI, 'He was a man of few words and very loving. They were a good couple and shared a good bond. They took us to several places, when they came to visit us. He told us to visit him and that he would take us around London and other places - Switzerland, Scotland and several other places. He had promised his father that he would take him to Finland because our daughter-in-law's brother is in Estonia. But this tragedy happened in the morning. We lost our son.' In the plane, there were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national. Miraculously, only one person, a British National with Indian origin, survived the accident, identified as Vishwashkumar Ramesh. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered enhanced safety inspections on Air India's Boeing 787-8/9 fleet. As a preventive measure, the DGCA has directed Air India to carry out additional maintenance actions on B787-8/9 aircraft equipped with Genx engines with immediate effect, in coordination with the concerned regional DGCA offices. (ANI)
India Gazette
14-06-2025
- India Gazette
Gujarat: Parents of Air India flight crash victim demand investigation into incident
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], June 14 (ANI): The parents of Roger Christian, one of the victims in the AI 171 plane crash, on Friday demanded a thorough investigation into the incident. They said that their son wanted to take them to Europe and promised to have them travel to different countries too. Roger's father, David Christian, requested the government to investigate the incident and ensure strict action against the people responsible. He also said that such an incident should not be repeated so that another family does not lose their sons or daughters. 'We urge the administration to investigate this. We have lost our son and daughter-in-law but we request that this should not happen to anyone, so strict action should be taken against whoever is guilty,' he told ANI here. The father also recounted dropping off his son and daughter-in-law to the airport, and talking afterwards, with him saying that he spoke to Roger at 1:15 PM, just a few minutes before the takeoff, and the subsequent accident. 'They had reached here on Saturday and were here for five days. They had their flight, and I had gone to the airport to see them off. After their clearances around 11-11.15 am, they asked me to return home as their flight would have left only after 1.30 pm. So, I returned home. I called them up around 1.15 pm. My son told me that they are seated and they would take off in 15 minutes,' he said. However, he first got to know about the crash through a relative. Later on, both parents went to the hospital to try to find the couple, and only got to know about their demise. 'I returned home. I called them up around 1.15 pm. My son told me that they are seated and they would take off in 15 my nephew asked me when Roger and Rachna left for London. When I told him, he told me that the plane had crashed...I then switched on my TV and saw that it was the same flight. We went to the airport,' he said. The father said that they only got confirmation of the deaths later in the evening, adding, 'The airport officials told us that there was nothing there. They told us to go to the Civil Hospital. At the hospital, we inquired in every ward. By then, we didn't know that everyone onboard died. We could not find them anywhere. Later in the evening, our relatives told us that nobody survived the had told me to visit him and that he would take me to Switzerland and everywhere else; he had promised me that.' Roger David Christian and his wife Rachna Roger Christian were visiting their family in Chandkheda area of Ahmedabad had come to the country for just five days. The couple were traveling back to London when Air India flight AI 171 crashed near Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, killing them along with 239 others. Roger Christian's mother, Sarla Christian said that his son was a man of few words but always took his parents to different places. She told ANI, 'He was a man of few words and very loving. They were a good couple and shared a good bond. They took us to several places, when they came to visit us. He told us to visit him and that he would take us around London and other places - Switzerland, Scotland and several other places. He had promised his father that he would take him to Finland because our daughter-in-law's brother is in Estonia. But this tragedy happened in the morning. We lost our son.' In the plane, there were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national. Miraculously, only one person, a British National with Indian origin, survived the accident, identified as Vishwashkumar Ramesh. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered enhanced safety inspections on Air India's Boeing 787-8/9 fleet. As a preventive measure, the DGCA has directed Air India to carry out additional maintenance actions on B787-8/9 aircraft equipped with Genx engines with immediate effect, in coordination with the concerned regional DGCA offices. (ANI)
Car and Driver
12-06-2025
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Singer and Hot-Rod Icon, Has Died at 82
Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, has died at the age of 82. In the early 1960s, Wilson's music brought SoCal hot-rodding culture to the world. He wasn't a hot-rodder himself, but he did nurture a love for the Chevrolet Corvette. As the co-founder of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson brought an idealized view of early '60s SoCal living across the United States and around the world: sun, sand, surf, and a hot set of wheels. He died this week at age 82 and leaves behind a catalog of some of the most iconic entries in the American songbook and some of the best summer cruising music ever written. Born in Hawthorne, California, in 1942, Wilson grew up surrounded by drag strips and racetracks, coming of age in the time fictionally portrayed in American Graffiti. Famously, most of the Beach Boys weren't actually surfers themselves, and likewise, Wilson wasn't much of a car guy. However, he grew up steeped in an environment of hot-rod culture, and it couldn't help but percolate into his music. getty images 1963's "Little Deuce Coupe" is probably the best-known car-themed Beach Boys tune. A deuce is, of course, a '32 Ford, the kind of plain-Jane car a youngster could pick up for newspaper-delivery money, then swap in V-8 power and hit the tarmac. That flathead mill was ported and relieved and stroked and bored, and it purred like a kitten until the lake pipes roared. You can thank DJ and producer Roger Christian for most of the hot-rodding jargon on "Deuce Coupe," but it was Wilson who fishhooked catchiness that you just couldn't shake. Again and again, the Beach Boys hit the top of the charts with songs like "I Get Around," "Good Vibrations," and "Surfin' USA." getty images Plenty of other Beach Boys songs reference cars and car culture, including "409," written about a big-block Chevy V-8, and "Fun Fun Fun," with its Ford Thunderbird. "Shut Down," released the same year as "Little Deuce Coupe," features a blow-by-blow street race between a Max Wedge Mopar and a Corvette Stingray. Wilson himself seems to have enjoyed Corvettes, and he owned a few. In 1989, with the popularity of "Kokomo" proving the Beach Boys could still create hits, Wilson produced "In My Car," all about the feeling of cruising in a Vette. A few years later, Wilson ordered his own Corvette ZR-1, cherry red. Considered hugely influential and one of the first music producers to harness studio production as part of the creative process, Wilson changed the landscape of pop music. You can pay him no better tribute than by queuing up some of the Beach Boys' greatest hits, rolling down the windows, and cruising off on a warm summer's eve, looking for a good vantage spot to watch the sunset. Brendan McAleer Contributing Editor Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and photographer based in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He grew up splitting his knuckles on British automobiles, came of age in the golden era of Japanese sport-compact performance, and began writing about cars and people in 2008. His particular interest is the intersection between humanity and machinery, whether it is the racing career of Walter Cronkite or Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's half-century obsession with the Citroën 2CV. He has taught both of his young daughters how to shift a manual transmission and is grateful for the excuse they provide to be perpetually buying Hot Wheels. Read full bio
