India, Jan. 29 -- Hours before flying on the ill-fated plane carrying Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, pilot-in-command Captain Shambhavi Pathak had a brief exchange with her grandmother in which he wished her good morning and received a sweet reply from the other end.

"Hi, good morning, Dadda," Shambhavi had texted her grandmother Meera Pathak, to which the latter replied, "Good morning, Cheeni", as she was lovingly called, reported NDTV. These were the last texts they exchanged, which later devastatingly became the last ever to be exchanged between the two.

Shambhavi Pathak was one of the five people who died in the plane crash that also killed Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday morning. The crash h...