Gurgaon: Air India pilot Aparajita Singh is the kind of person who sees her glass as half-full. After 10 surgeries to recover from a fractured spine, broken bones and punctured liver, lungs and intestine, Singh is back in the cockpit.
"I am back. Once I entered the cockpit of Boeing 777, I never felt that I did not fly for 20 months," she said after flying from Delhi to London recently.
On March 18, 2012, the 24-year-old was involved in a near-fatal head-on car crash on NH-8 near Behror (Rajasthan), which is midway while going to Delhi from Jaipur.
Singh was coming back to Gurgaon from Neemrana (Alwar) in a brand-new Maruti Swift Dzire with her buddies when the car collided with a truck.
A cop from the police station made the split-second decision to pull her out by cutting the badly smashed car quickly and rushed her to the nearby Kailash hospital. He later described the crash as the worst he had seen where everyone survived.
After initial treatment at the highway hospital, Singh underwent several surgeries and spent over a month at Medanta hospital before being shifted to her home, where continued to recover.
30/11/13 Rao Jaswant Singh/Times of India
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"I am back. Once I entered the cockpit of Boeing 777, I never felt that I did not fly for 20 months," she said after flying from Delhi to London recently.
On March 18, 2012, the 24-year-old was involved in a near-fatal head-on car crash on NH-8 near Behror (Rajasthan), which is midway while going to Delhi from Jaipur.
Singh was coming back to Gurgaon from Neemrana (Alwar) in a brand-new Maruti Swift Dzire with her buddies when the car collided with a truck.
A cop from the police station made the split-second decision to pull her out by cutting the badly smashed car quickly and rushed her to the nearby Kailash hospital. He later described the crash as the worst he had seen where everyone survived.
After initial treatment at the highway hospital, Singh underwent several surgeries and spent over a month at Medanta hospital before being shifted to her home, where continued to recover.
30/11/13 Rao Jaswant Singh/Times of India
