Died & Reborn, Courtesy Air-India!
Ramesh Kumar from Greater Noida Have you experienced involuntary vertical drop? Am not talking about paragliding in Kulu with safety hatches. But your aircraft hits an air pocket multiple times in inclement weather: Rain. Lightning. Thunder shower. Well, I experienced it. "Lucky man! You will be flying by Dreamliner!" quipped Selvan Dasaraj while dropping me at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel International Airport, Ahmedabad after visiting the burnt rail bogies of Godhra of 2001 ( More about that later .) on 23 September 2021. Nothing to beat the Dreamliner experience. Traveled several times. Plus a deep connection with it because Selvan's spouse - a family friend - is an Air India senior cabin crew member and travels mostly Dreamliner. As we trooped into the waiting coach for boarding, my jaw dropped sighting ATR 600 instead of Dreamliner. ATR 600 is a baby plane with Less than 70 seats. Four seats per row multiplied by 18. It was the first shock or dampener. I was allott
