Her husband Melwyn Kiran Menezes was on board Air India Express flight IX812 that crashed while landing at Mangaluru on May 22, 2010, killing 158 passengers and crew on board. With daughter Meghan by her side, Helen said, "Society has helped me become strong." But fate willed otherwise for Kiran, working with Dragon Engineering in Dubai and 157-other passengers on board the flight. MANGLURU: While India's worst ever air crash to-date may be a distant memory to many, but it is still fresh in the mind of Helen Rita Menezes of Derebail. The administration has set up the park at a site abutting the Phalguni river, where unidentified bodies of the crash have been buried.
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