Brave Air India Pilots Prevent A Fatality
Some incidents leave you awestruck. One such episode was a recent Air India flight to JFK where the pilots’ calmness and presence of mind prevented a tragedy. Senior commander Rustom Palia and second-in-command, Captain Sushant Singh showed nerves of steel. System failure The flight from Delhi to New York is long. After fourteen hours in the air, the pilots realized, the system in their nine-year-old Boeing 777-300 was not responding. Weather conditions at JFK were deteriorating fast. Captain Palia informed JFK Air Traffic Control (ATC) about the situation. He said, “We’re really, you know, stuck and there’s no fuel.” Failure […]
