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<p>A woman who narrowly missed boarding the ill-fated <a target="_blank" href="http://gistreel.com/tag/air-india-flight"><strong>Air India flight</strong></a> AI171 to London Gatwick has described her escape as nothing short of a miracle.</p>
<p>Bhoomi Chauhan, a 28-year-old business administration student living in Bristol, UK, had been visiting western India for a holiday. She was scheduled to fly home on Thursday aboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, <strong>which tragically crashed shortly after take-off</strong> from Ahmedabad, killing all 253 people on board and at least eight on the ground.</p>
<p>Chauhan missed the flight by just 10 minutes due to severe traffic congestion on her way to the airport from Ankleshwar, about 201km (125 miles) south of Ahmedabad.</p>
<p><em>“We got very angry with our driver and left the airport in frustration. I was very disappointed… but then, while speaking to the travel agent about getting a refund, I got a call that the plane had gone down,”</em> she told the BBC’s Gujarati service.</p>
<p>Chauhan’s digital boarding pass, reviewed by BBC News, showed she had checked in online and was assigned to seat 36G in economy class. But despite arriving at the airport at 12:20 p.m. local time, 10 minutes after boarding was scheduled to begin, she was denied entry by airline staff.</p>
<p><em>“I requested airline staff to allow me inside as I was only 10 minutes late. I told them that I am the last passenger and so please allow me to board the plane, but they did not allow me,”</em> she recalled.</p>
<p>She added: “<em>When I missed the flight, I was dejected. The only thing in my mind was, ‘If I had started a little earlier, I would have boarded the plane.’ This is totally a miracle for me.”</em></p>
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