Plane's late, wings off, but fruit's fresh

Mumbai: In fiction they call it magic realism. Imagine waking up on a Monday morning in Chembur to find a massive Boeing 737 parked calmly outside your house.
It all started at about 3 am on Sunday when the driver of a giant trailer carrying the fuselage of an Air Sahara plane out of the city asked for directions to the Mumbai-Pune highway. The aircraft was headed for Delhi where it will reportedly be used at a flight training academy.
Someone pointed the driver towards a left turn, which he trustingly took, only to end up driving past Duke's factory at Chembur to a point of no return. Entering a road off the main highway, the driver found himself hemmed in by two-storey buildings, garages and small shops, unable to turn the 75-foot monstrosity around.
"It was such a shock to find it there when I came to open my shop in the morning," said Parminder Kaur, whose Laxmi Medicals now stands in the generous shadow cast by the tail of the Boeing.
This particular plane has been something of a problem child. Last year it was stuck on a Mumbai runway, blocking air traffic for five days. This time it has held up road traffic for three days. The rest of the plane has already been broken into 1,700 pieces and sold to a US-based company for an undisclosed sum.
03/05/07 Kartikeya/Times of India

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