A teenager who shot a video of Ahmedabada who saw the world

Whenever Arian Asari heard the sound of the plane, he escaped from the house to look for it.

The spot plates were for his hobby, his father MaganbhaI said Asari. Aryan loved the roaring sound of the engine filling the air, and then grow louder when the plane was spinning over it, leaving behind chalk threads in the sky, in the sky,

But now the thought itself makes him sick.

Last Thursday, a 17-year-old guy was on the Terrace of Mr. Asari House in Ahmedabad, making videos with planes when Air India Dreamliner 787-8 crashed in front of his eyes and burst into the flames, bent 241 on board. Almost 30 people were also killed on the ground.

The moment was captured by Arian on his phone.

“I saw the plane. It went down and down. Then he hesitated and crashed in front of my eyes,” he said at the BBC Gujarati in an interview earlier this week.

The video, which is now the most important prompt for investigators trying to find the cause of the disaster, directed the ripple through the media and put Ariana, a high school student – at the center of one of the country’s worst aviation disaster.

“We were littered with requests for interviews. Reporters Brezhi near my house day and night asking him,” Mr. Asar said in the BBC.

The incident – and what followed, had a “devastating influence” on Arian, who was injured by what he saw. “My son is so afraid that he stopped using the phone,” Mr. Asar said.

The soldier retired the army, who is now working with the subway city service, Mr. Asar spent three years in the neighborhood, near the airport. He recently moved to a small room, located on the terrace of a three -story building, with a clear view of the city horizon.

His wife and two children – Aryan and his older sister – live in their joyful village near the border between Gujarat and Rajastan.

“It was the first in Ahmedabad Arian. In fact, he left the village for the first time in his life,” Mr. Asar said.

“Every time I called, Arian would ask if I could notice planes from our terrace, and I would tell him that you could see hundreds of them punch.”

Arian, he explained, was an enthusiast of the plane and liked to look at them as they flew in the sky over his village. The idea that he could see them much more close to the terrace of his father’s new home was very attractive.

The opportunity introduced herself last week, when the daughter of Mr. Asar, who wants to become a police officer, went to Ahmedabad to write the introductory exam.

Aryan decided to accompany her. “He told me he wanted to buy new notebooks and clothes,” Mr. Asar said.

Brothers and sisters arrived at the father’s house around noon on Thursday, about an hour and a half before the catastrophe.

The family ate lunch together, after which Mr. Asar went to work, leaving the children at home.

Aryan came out on the terrace and started making videos from home to show his friends. That’s when he noticed the Air India plane and started shooting it, he said BBC Gujarati.

Arian soon realized that something was not quite right on the plane: “He trembled, moved left and right,” he said.

When the plane walked down the spiral, he continued to shoot it, unable to understand what was to happen.

But when the thick smoke filled the air, and the fire threw out of the buildings, he finally realized that he had just witnessed.

He sent the video to his father and called him.

“He sounded so frightened -” I saw this dad, I saw him crashing, “he told me, and continued to ask me what would happen to him. I told him to sit and not worry,” Mr. Asar said. “But he was around himself with horror.”

Mr. Asar also asked his son not to share the video further. However, too scared and shocked, Arian sent it to several friends. “The next thing we knew was the clip everywhere.”

The next few days were a nightmare for the family.

Neighbors, journalists and cameras flooded a small house and night Asari day and night, asking to talk to Arian. “We couldn’t do anything to stop them,” he said.

The family also received a visit to the police, which delivered Ariana to the station and recorded its statement.

Mr. Asar said that contrary to the reports, Arian was not detained, but the police questioned him for a few hours what he saw.

“So far, my son was so concerned that we decided to send him back to the village.”

Returning at home, Ariana resumed school, but “he still doesn’t feel like that. His mother tells me that every time his phone is ringing, he was scared,” Mr. Asar said.

“I know that he will be fine over time. But I don’t think my son will try to look for planes again in the sky,” he added.

Additional report by Roxy Gagdecar, BBC Gujarati, in Ahmedabad.

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