India, June 14 -- Roshni Songhare, a 26-year-old flight attendant aboard the ill-fated Air India flight that crashed near Ahmedabad Airport on Thursday, was just months away from getting engaged and beginning a new chapter with her fiance, a merchant navy officer.

Her family, who had begun preparations for her wedding, is now struggling to cope up from the heartbreak of her death.

London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft went down in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday, claiming the 241 of the 242 people on board. One passenger miraculously survived the Ahmedabad plane crash.

"She was the heartbeat of this home. We were getting her engaged in November and married in March," PTI news agency quoted a close relative of Roshni ...