Heidi Moran found out that two of her friends had been killed on Air India Flight AI171 from an Instagram message request. Ms. Moran helps run an annual LGBTQ+ festival in Ramsgate, a seaside town on England’s southern coast. Around lunchtime on Thursday, a message to Ramsgate Pride appeared from an account she didn’t recognize, based in India, saying that the names of Jamie and Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek were on the flight manifest for the plane that had crashed that day in Ahmedabad. “We saw that they’re supposed to be at the event on Saturday, but we’ve got the manifest and sadly they were on board. “I didn’t really believe it, so I messaged Jamie and tried to call him,” Ms. Moran said.
