New Delhi, June 16 -- Among the 241 Air India crash victims was a Gujarati mother of an 8-year-old boy, Abdhiben Patel, who was very reluctant to travel to India, leaving her young son behind for the first time.

According to her colleague, Abdhiben, known as Abdhi, had flown to India just two weeks earlier to care for her elderly mother, but was hesitant to make the trip.

"She didn't want to go," said Atif Karim, 45, her colleague and close friend at Zone Beauty Studio in Northampton, told the news agency PA.

"She told me, 'I just don't like being away from him'. It was her first time leaving him, and she was very nervous."

Atif shared that although Abdhi wasn't excited about the trip, "it was a sense of duty. Her mum was unwell, but ...