Family says Ontario dentist was aboard Air India flight that crashed after takeoff [Video]

The Canadian citizen believed to be on an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff is a dentist from Mississauga, Ont., her family has confirmed.

The husband of Nirali Sureshkumar Patel said she was on board the London-bound flight that crashed Thursday, killing at least 240 people.

Patel’s dental clinic referred The Canadian Press to the husband, who said that he was in the process of booking travel to India for himself and the couple’s one-year-old child.

“That was my wife,” he said. “I am not in a state to speak right now.”

He declined to provide his full name and requested privacy for the family.

The plane crashed in a residential area of Ahmedabad, a city of more than five million people in northwestern India.

Among the dead were at least five students staying at a medical college hostel where the plane crashed. A local hospital said it …