Mumbai, June 18 -- Over 100 people, including family, friends, neighbours and Air India employees, turned up at the Jal Vayu Vihar housing society in Powai on Tuesday morning to receive Captain Sumeet Sabharwal's mortal remains, five days after the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner he was flying crashed moments after takeoff in Ahmedabad on June 12. The 56-year-old pilot was among the 241 people onboard the ill-fated flight who perished in one of India's worst aviation disasters. Amidst the crowd stood the frail but stoic figure of Sabharwal's father, Pushkaraj, a nonagenarian who had himself worked at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Standing next to the coffin carrying his son's mortal remains, which had taken the best part of a week to be identified, Pushkaraj was silent, concentrating on his prayers. Next to him stood his daughter, over 60 herself, along with her two sons who both work as pilots, following in their uncle's footsteps. They had arrived in Mumbai from Delhi on the day of the crash and then gone to Ahmedabad to collect Sabharwal's body. Sabharwal's remembrance took place in the housing society he had moved to with his parents in the late '90s. After losing his mother during the pandemic, Sabharwal is survived by his elderly father. People flooded into the small foyer of block F, where the Sabharwals lived, adding to the flowers stacked high on his coffin. Builder Niranjan Hiranandani and MLA Dilip Lande also made an appearance to pay their respects. "Just a few days ago, he had promised his father he would stop working and look after him full time," said Salma Shaikh, a close family friend of Sabharwal's sisters. His next-door neighbour echoed this, saying, "Whenever he would leave, he would ask us to keep an eye on his father." Sabharwal's remains were then taken to the Hindu crematorium in Chakala, where the conversation was all about the horrific crash, and everyone's last memories and stories about Sabharwal. The funeral also reunited many of the veteran pilot's old batchmates and Air India colleagues. "We were at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi together in 1992, where he was our senior, and then we became colleagues," said Kapil Kohal, a pilot. "He was 'Sabby' for us. Always a people's person, always cheery. We both had a dream, and we achieved it together. But now he's gone far away from us, leaving a huge gap. I'm confident he fought to keep control of the plane till the very end," Kohal added. Shankar Choudhary, another colleague who requested anonymity, said, "Sumeet was always smiling, a happy-go-lucky guy. What happened was incredibly shocking."...