section_path: Background/Passengers and crew
section_name: Passengers and crew
paragraph_text: Passengers and crew
  
  The flight was carrying 242 people, including 230 passengers — 11 of them children and 2 infants — along with 2 pilots and 10 flight attendants. The passenger manifest included 169 Indian nationals, 53 British, 7 Portuguese, and a Canadian. The flight was commanded by Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, aged 55, with 8,200 hours of flying experience, and First Officer Clive Kunder, aged 32, with 1,100 hours of flying experience.