India, June 16 -- Heart-wrenching stories are emerging every day as families, friends, and colleagues of the victims of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad are coming to terms with the death of their loved ones. One such story is of Abdhiben Patel, 40, who reluctantly left her son in Britain to visit her ailing mother in Gujarat and became a victim of the deadline crash that killed at least 270 people, including 241 passengers and crew.

Patel's close friend and colleague at Zone Beauty Studio in Northampton told PA media that the woman didn't want to leave her son behind for the first time.

She had flown to India just two weeks earlier to care for her elderly mother, but was hesitant to make the trip and leave her eight-year-old son ...