Mohammed Ali, a flight steward with Air India, had resigned from the national carrier to join the hotel industry last week, but fate had something else in store for him.
Twenty four-year-old Ali, hailing from Bhopal, was one among 158 people who died in Mangalore air crash yesterday.
Ali, who was serving notice period and was stationed at Mangalore airport, was asked to report for the Mangalore-Dubai flight at the last moment after one of his colleagues failed to turn up, his family members said.
He had joined Air India as flight steward in 2008, they said.
He had resigned last week to join hotel industry, they said.
Ali's father Mohammad Shawar Ali, a retired bank employee who was in Delhi at the time of accident, is understood to have left for Mangalore, they said.
Ali lad last visited his family on May 19.
