Nagpur: “My little daughter Seerat was the only child in the plane; she was hungry, sleepy and cranky – can you believe it, for four hours we were not even offered water?” Recalls a horrified Anuradha Narayan who was a passenger on this flight along with her two years’ old toddler Seerat. One is not allowed to carry water bottles on the flight and Anu was sure it being “our own” Air India she was travelling by, they would be served water and some snacks too; it was a short one hour’s flight – they would soon be home in Andheri, Mumbai.
The flight that was supposed to take off at 8.40 p.m. was late and took off only around 9.10 p.m. It was full with 119 passengers out of whom around ten were women. The air hostesses were seated in their seats with seat belts on and did not have time to get up and start serving the passengers at all when Anu felt the plane turning around and she instinctively knew something was wrong. After that, the air hostesses who must have got some signal from the cockpit remained seated and only when the plane began descending that an announcement was made that due to some technical snags the plane had returned to Nagpur and was landing where the problem would be looked into and they could take off again ASAP.
In Mumbai, Anu’s husband Pavel was about to drive to the airport to pick up his wife and daughter – earlier they would have just taken a cab but not anymore after the latest Uber incident! – when he got a call saying they had returned to Nagpur.
10/12/14 Nagpur Today
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The flight that was supposed to take off at 8.40 p.m. was late and took off only around 9.10 p.m. It was full with 119 passengers out of whom around ten were women. The air hostesses were seated in their seats with seat belts on and did not have time to get up and start serving the passengers at all when Anu felt the plane turning around and she instinctively knew something was wrong. After that, the air hostesses who must have got some signal from the cockpit remained seated and only when the plane began descending that an announcement was made that due to some technical snags the plane had returned to Nagpur and was landing where the problem would be looked into and they could take off again ASAP.
In Mumbai, Anu’s husband Pavel was about to drive to the airport to pick up his wife and daughter – earlier they would have just taken a cab but not anymore after the latest Uber incident! – when he got a call saying they had returned to Nagpur.
10/12/14 Nagpur Today
