Jehanabad, June 15 -- The mother of Indian Air Force pilot Flight Lieutenant Shubham Kumar, who lost his life in the AN-32 aircraft crash in Assam's Jorhat, on recalled her last conversation with her son and said she never imagined he would not return home.

"I spoke to him yesterday morning; he told me that he was going on a mission. I hadn't received a call yesterday, but then I got a call that the plane had crashed," Poonam Kumar told ANI.

Recalling his recent visit home, she said, "He came on May 5th and left on May 29th. I didn't know that my son would leave and never return."

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