The co-pilot of Air India Flight AI171 may have made a fatal error, causing the crash that killed 241 people onboard and dozens more on the ground, an aviation expert has claimed.

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"She was bubbly, kind, always smiling – she had a way of putting people at ease and always took a genuine interest in their lives."