India, June 13 -- Anju Sharma, 55, whose parents live at Ramsaran Majra village in Haryana's Kurukshetra district, was among the victims of the Air India plane that crashed soon after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday.

Anju had boarded the London-bound flight to meet her elder daughter, who is now reaching Ahmedabad after the tragedy that killed 241 of the 242 people on board.

Prashant Sharma, her brother-in-law, said over phone: "This tragic end is hard to believe. She must have been so happy to be leaving for London to meet her daughter and granddaughter. They must be waiting eagerly. How could this have happened? It is beyond our imagination."

He said that the family learnt of the crash from TV news channels. "We wer...