Ajaykumar Ramesh, 35, and Viswash, 40, had been in India on a business trip before they boarded the doomed flight travelling from Ahmedabad to Gatwick on Thursday.

Ajay Valgi, from Leicester, told how the family received a video call from a bloodied Vishwash, 38, after he escaped from the smoking wreckage of the Air India flight.

It is almost impossible to live through a fully-fuelled aircraft crashing into a built-up area, say aviation experts