13/06/2025
This is a truly heartbreaking and tragic story.
Dr. Pratik Joshi, his wife Dr. Koni Vyas, and their three young children (eight-year-old daughter Miraya, and five-year-old twin boys Pradyut and Nakul) were indeed on Air India flight AI-171, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India, on June 12, 2025.
The family was en route to London to begin a new life together. Dr. Pratik Joshi, a radiologist, had been working in London for some time, and his wife, Dr. Koni Vyas, a pathologist, had recently resigned from her job in India to join him with their children. They had even taken a joyful selfie on board the plane just moments before the crash.
The flight was bound for London Gatwick and tragically, almost all 242 people on board perished in the accident, which also affected a residential area in Ahmedabad. This incident has sent shockwaves across India and globally, given the devastating loss of life and the dreams cut short, like those of the Joshi family.