You promised me on June 12 that we’d meet in the evening in London — and that evening never came," wrote a grieving daughter in a heart-wrenching letter after losing both her parents in the Air India AI 171 crash. Hiral Adheda, based in London, had been eagerly awaiting the arrival of her parents, Vinaben and Vallabhbhai Adheda, when the plane tragically went down. 

Unable to come to terms with the loss, Hiral penned an emotional letter to her late parents and shared it with her sister in Vadodara, India. The deceased, Vinaben and Vallabhbhai Adheda, were residents of Vadodara. Vallabhbhai was a retired employee of the Gujarat Electricity Board. Hiral, who has been living in London for several years, often feared the day one of her parents would pass away, and who would take care of the other. Fate cruelly answered by taking both.

A copy of the heartfelt letter written by Hiral Adheda from London after losing her parents in the AI-171 crash