Indian student is final passenger on Flight 3407 to be identified

Nirmal Sidha is still coming to terms with the tragic events of Feb. 12. She is attending the NTSB hearings in Washington, D.C., but she could not stay in the room when the animation of the plane crash was screened.
Her son, Dipinder Sidha, 29, was on Continental Connection Flight 3407. His name previously was not released by the airline or the family.
Dipinder Sidha was born in India, and lived with his family in Liberia before they moved to the United States. His family lives in Texas.
"I didn't want to watch," Nirmal Sidha said Tuesday when she left the hearing room. "Maybe a few years from now. Maybe not ever."
She did want to talk about her son.
In February, Dipinder Sidha was living in California, where he was attending graduate school, his mother said. He was studying for an MBA.
Sidha was traveling to visit relatives in Toronto the night of the crash. He had flown from California to Newark, and was taking the commuter plane to Buffalo, where relatives were waiting to pick him up.
13/05/09 Susan Schulman/The Buffalo News, USA

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