Ahmedabad, June 15 -- Last Thursday, Aryan Asari had just walked up to the terrace of a two-storey building in Ahmedabad's Omkar Nagar when the 17-year-old was fascinated by the roar of aeroplanes flying at low altitudes. Visiting his father from Samalaji hamlet in Aravalli district, the Class 12 student took out his mobile phone and started shooting a video. What he caught was the ill-fated AI-171 that crashed 33 seconds after taking off from the nearby Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel airport - his short grainy video, capturing the last seconds of the flight, then was beamed around the world and became the basis for both expert reconstructions and amateur investigations.

On Saturday, Asari recorded his statement before the Gujarat Police.

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