Indian crew members fly home after cruise ship capsizes

(19 Jan 2012) SHOTLIST ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Crew member from cruise ship Costa Concordia, Rahul Raghav, standing with his mother and sister 2. Raghav's father hugging him, and crying 3. Raghav being hugged and kissed by his father and mother, posing for photographers 4. Wide of the media surrounding Raghav 5. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Rahul Raghav, 34, Costa Concordia crew member in food and beverage department: "When we were in the ship it was a dream, only a bad dream." 6. Pan of Raghav walking away with his family 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bharat Paithankar, 36, Costa Concordia bartender: "I was very, very scared, I was crying on the last day, because I was the second last guy to disembark from the ship. The ship had already turned a 30 degree angle in the water." 8. Wide of media surrounding Paithankar 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bharat Paithankar, 36, Costa Concordia bartender: "I would want to tell that one Indian guy, Russel from Naigaon Vasai (area in Mumbai) he is only missing that's it." (Q: Will you go back to cruise now?) "No. I don't think so now. For the moment, no, I don't want to think about it. I just want to go home, and just peace." 10. Paithankar walking away carrying his daughter 11. Another surviving crew member posing for photographs with her family 12. Wide of her walking away 13. SOUNDBITE (English) No name given, Costa Concordia crew member: "It was very difficult, it was very difficult." (Q: Did you also jump off?) "No, no." (Q: Were you provided a life jacket, what happened?) "Yeah." 14. Crew member walking off through crowd of media STORYLINE Indian crew members from the shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia returned to Mumbai on Thursday to be reunited with their families. Rahul Raghav, 34, who worked in the food and beverage department, was given an emotional welcome by his parents, who joined him to pose for photographers. He described what had happened on the capsizing ship as a "bad dream." Another crew member, bartender Bharat Paithankar, 36, said he was the second to last person to disembark from the ship. "I was very, very scared, I was crying," he said, adding that he had not decided yet if he would ever go back to working onboard cruise liners. Only six of the 203 Indians who were aboard the Costa Concordia were on the flight that landed in Mumbai on Thursday. Another small group arrived in New Delhi earlier on Thursday. Authorities said nearly all the Indian crew members are expected back within a few days aboard flights arriving around India. The Costa Concordia, which slammed into a reef on Friday off the Tuscan island of Giglio after the captain made what has been called an unauthorised manoeuvre. Captain Francesco Schettino is under house arrest and faces possible charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8a1a46b81b77e96f8c18fe4408ec274b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork