Mumbai: Three residents of Yogi Nagar in Borivli were among the five Indians on board the Beijingbound Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing on Saturday.
The three were identified as Chetna Kolekar, 55, Vinod Kolekar, 55, and their son Swanand Kolekar, 23. They were on their way to meet Sanved Kolekar, Chetna and Vinod's eldest son, who works in Beijing.
Sanved was waiting at the Beijing airport when Malaysia Airlines first reported that its flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew had lost contact with the air traffic control. "My parents are on the flight. I don't know what happened. They (the airlines) haven't given me any information, it's very difficult because I don't understand the local language," he said.
The Kolekars' residence in Sukh Sagar Housing Society was locked on Saturday. Other residents of the society gathered at the main entrance of the society on hearing the news and a couple, who identified themselves as the Kolekars' relatives, said they had no information from the airlines and were hoping for the best.
The Kolekars left Mumbai on Friday on a Malaysia Airline flight to Kuala Lumpur, from where they took the connecting flight to Beijing.
Apart from the three Borivli residents, Chandrika Sharma, 51, a resident of Chennai, who studied at Mumbai's Tata Institute of Social Studies; and Muktesh Mukherjee, 42, an Indian-origin Canadian; were the other Indians reported missing in the mishap.
Chandrika Sharma, who did her masters from TISS and was working for the Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi, was on her way to Mongolia to participate in a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) conference.
She had completed her MPhil from Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram in 1993. She was to turn 51 later this month. Her areas of expertise included institutional aspects of community-based fisheries resources management.
09/03/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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The three were identified as Chetna Kolekar, 55, Vinod Kolekar, 55, and their son Swanand Kolekar, 23. They were on their way to meet Sanved Kolekar, Chetna and Vinod's eldest son, who works in Beijing.
Sanved was waiting at the Beijing airport when Malaysia Airlines first reported that its flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew had lost contact with the air traffic control. "My parents are on the flight. I don't know what happened. They (the airlines) haven't given me any information, it's very difficult because I don't understand the local language," he said.
The Kolekars' residence in Sukh Sagar Housing Society was locked on Saturday. Other residents of the society gathered at the main entrance of the society on hearing the news and a couple, who identified themselves as the Kolekars' relatives, said they had no information from the airlines and were hoping for the best.
The Kolekars left Mumbai on Friday on a Malaysia Airline flight to Kuala Lumpur, from where they took the connecting flight to Beijing.
Apart from the three Borivli residents, Chandrika Sharma, 51, a resident of Chennai, who studied at Mumbai's Tata Institute of Social Studies; and Muktesh Mukherjee, 42, an Indian-origin Canadian; were the other Indians reported missing in the mishap.
Chandrika Sharma, who did her masters from TISS and was working for the Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi, was on her way to Mongolia to participate in a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) conference.
She had completed her MPhil from Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram in 1993. She was to turn 51 later this month. Her areas of expertise included institutional aspects of community-based fisheries resources management.
09/03/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
