Manipur bids adieu to AI crew member Nganthoi Sharma

The mortal remains of Kongbrailatpam Nganthoi Sharma, a 20-year-old Air India cabin crew member who lost her is life in the plane crash in Ahmedabad ten days ago reached Imphal on Sunday.
Packed in full-size coffins and wrapped in a white cloth, the mortal remains of one of two cabin crew members victims of tragic plane crash from Manipur was brought by an Indigo flight at Bir Tikendrajit International Airport this afternoon.
Her father and her elder sister who had gone to Ahmedabad for DNA testing accompanied the mortal remains that landed at the airport where a large crowd gathered to pay their last respects.
The atmosphere was heavy with grief as family members, friends, and well-wishers wept and offered floral tributes.
The coffin, carried aboard an Indigo flight, was received in a solemn ceremony attended by state chief secretary Prashant Kumar Singh, Director General of Police Rajiv Singh, senior police officials, Airport Authority staff, and Air India personnel.
MP from Manipur Dr Angomcha Bimol Akoijam and Congress MLA Okram Surajkumar were among prominent leaders of the state who turned up to pay their last tributes to the departed souls.
Nganthoi’s father and elder sister, visibly distraught, stood alongside the coffin, placing flowers and offering a silent farewell before taking the mortal remains to her native village in Thoubal district for performing her last rites While taking her body to her residence on an open truck, thousands turned up on the streets of Imphal to bid farewell and pay floral tributes to the departed soul.
Nganthoi, who hailed from Thoubal Awang Leikai in Thoubal district, was one of two crew members from Manipur on the ill-fated flight.
Earlier in the week, the remains of the other, Lamnunthem Singson of Kangpokpi, were returned to his hometown, where thousands gathered to mourn.
“The state of Manipur mourns the heartbreaking loss of two of its bright and promising daughters – Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam and Lamnunthem Singson – who tragically lost their lives in a recent incident that has shaken us all,” Manipur government stated in a post on the internet. Nganthoi was the second of three siblings, all girls and her father, K Nandeshkumar, and mother were still in trauma.
To become a flight attendant was her dream, Nganthoi’s elder sister cried while lamenting that they couldn’t chat on video on the day she was about to leave for London due to the internet ban.
When the tragic plane crash occurred, internet services were banned across the valley districts of Manipur following violent agitations over the arrest of a leader of Arambai Tenggol.
However, she messaged her informing that she would be flying that day and that would be unreachable until she returned, the elder sister cried. Upon reaching her native village, top officials of Thoubal district administration led by its deputy commissioner Hannah Khamei received the mortal remains while paying floral tribute to the departed soul.