'It feels like life will end here today': An eyewitness to the Patna-Lucknow flight crash said that a strong jolt was felt due to lightning, and the plane continued to sway.

For a moment, it felt like life would come to an end right then and there. The plane was suddenly dropping, then rising sharply, and there was chaos and screaming in the cabin. Rajesh Kumar Bhatt, the chief spokesperson of the LJP, who was on an IndiGo flight from Patna to Lucknow, described the terrifying turbulence he witnessed on the evening of October 7 in a similar way. According to him, after the weather suddenly deteriorated between Banaras and Prayagraj, the flight...