In the normal course, Captain Deepak Sathe would have called his mother on Saturday to wish her on turning 83. Instead, a conversation they had last week, where he told Leela Sathe to not go out of home due to the coronavirus, would be among their last. Akhilesh Sharma spoke to wife Megha, who is expected to deliver their first child within days, just minutes before the Air India Express he was co-piloting with Sathe took off from Dubai on Friday afternoon. He told her to take care, adding, “Will call you as soon as I reach Kerala.” By 8 pm, Sathe, 59, and Sharma, 32, were dead, with the flight being operated as a part of the Vande Bharat rescue mission skidding off a Kozhikode airport...
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