Calcutta: Some fainted, some wept inconsolably, some presented brave faces.

It was a heart-rending scene at Calcutta airport on Monday morning as grieving relatives of passengers of the Boeing 737 began trooping into the airport as news of the crash spread.

Jayanta Chakrabarty, a colleague of Biswajeet Mukhopadhyay who worked in a chemicals factory near here and one of the passengers, said his friend was going to Lucknow on a business trip. Mukhopadhyay is a resident of Deshbandhunagar in Baguihati. His father-in-law, who also came to the airport, was seen making frantic inquiries about him.

S K Mishra, a deputy manager of Tisco, was also on the flight with a three-year-old child. His wife Bandana Mishra works in a software company here. Senior traffic manager of AAI, Rajat Dutt, was another on board the flight. He was going to Patna to bring his family to Calcutta.

Rupa Dey, wife of Dr Sandip Kumar Dey, was at the airport soon after hearing the news of the crash. She was married four years ago to Dr Dey, who was going on a World Health Organisation assignment trip to Patna.

Sub-inspector of Rapid Action Force V R Prasad said P Prasad, wife of his elder brother R R Prasad, Deputy Commissioner, Income Tax, Calcutta, died in the crash.

He said Ms Prasad was the daughter of retired IPS officer R B Ram. She was coming to Patna to meet her parents and her in-laws.

Senior BJP leader Vijaya Singh lost her husband J N Singh, Officers' Association general secretary of State Bank of India.

Singh was accompanied by the president of the association K C Mishra, who also died. Both were returning from a meeting in Calcutta.

Area manager of Tata Steel M Mishra also died. Mishra was on his way to Patna to join the office there.

UNI

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