Calcutta, July 17 :     When Sandip Kumar Dey, a promising paediatrician, bade farewell to wife Rupa, also a doctor, and mother-in-law Varsha Devi early on Monday morning, little did they know that they were seeing him for the last time. At 12 noon, a call from the airlines' authorities informed the family of the crash. 'We were praying that Sandip would be among the seven passengers in hospital. But his name is not on the list,' sobbed Varsha Devi, who had served Sandip tea at 5 am, just before he left their Salt Lake home to catch a flight to Patna. 'Only last night, while having dinner together, Sandip was explaining about the WHO programme that he was going to attend... What shall I tell his old mother, who lives in Bankura?' wondered Varsha Devi. As soon as news of the crash reached Rupa, a gynaecologist with National Medical College, she rang up cousin Abhijit and aunt Jharna Basu. 'Come quickly, I will have to leave for the airport... You will have to take care of ma,' she said. On reaching the airport, Rupa called to say that she was hoping to leave for Patna by an evening flight. For 48-eight-year-old businessman Shamsur Rahman, of Narkeldanga, it was a call of death. In the early hours of Monday, Rahman was awakened by the frantic ringing of the telephone. It was his wife from Kanpur, with the news of her mother's death. Shamsur did not waste a moment. He contacted his travel agent friend, organised a ticket for CD-7412 and rushed to the airport. When his wife learnt about the crash, she rang up her in-laws in Calcutta immediately. 'Which flight has he taken?' she demanded. 'Bhabi went absolutely quiet, then slammed the receiver down. First her mother, and now her husband... She doesn't know who to blame,' said Shamsur's brother Azizur. 'I don't know how to express myself. I'm at a loss for words,' said Nadeem, Shamsur Rahman's elder son, sitting with brother Salim, barely into his 20s. Samsur's elder brother, Shafikur, left by the special train to Patna to bring back the body. Thirty-year-old Anil Kumar Kanojia altered his travel plans at the last minute to take the flight to death. Anil had come down from Lucknow to elder brother Ajay's Dum Dum house in search of a job on July 7. His air ticket back to Lucknow was booked for July 18. 'To attend to some urgent work back home in Lucknow, Anil had to leave a day early. When I served him tea at 5.30 am, I didn't realise that I would never see him again,' sobbed Chaitali, Anil's sister-in-law. They learnt about the Patna plane crash on the TV news. Ajay, an employee of Indian Airlines, rushed to the airport and left for Patna on the special flight. Alone at home with her three-year-old daughter, Chaitali is glued to the TV set for further information on the crash. 'I don't know whether to call up my father-in-law in Lucknow, as I don't know whether they are aware of what has happened.' The ordeal has just begun for the ailing parents of 36-year -old Biswajit Mukherjee. They refuse to believe that their eldest son is no more. At Biswajit's Baguiati home, wife Gopa stares into emptiness, with her five-year-old and 18-month-old clinging to her.