Air India crash: Grieving families say justice remains elusive a year later

Ahmedabad, India — Sita Patni sits in a small room in her first-floor home in Meghani Nagar, a residential neighbourhood in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Her right hand, waist and both legs are charred and blackened from burns, evidence of a mother’s desperate and futile efforts to save her child. When she hears jumbo jets landing or taking off from the city’s airport right next to the locality, she lowers her face to hide her tears. …