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747-237 · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:27 am Post subject: 30th Anniversary of "Kanishka"

June 23 marks 30 years of this tragic day.
Sharing some pics from the personal collection of my father.
(Hopefully our resident stealin' SOBs; Bharghav Thantry, Yogesh Naik and perhaps another few, would have some respect for the dead, and their property ! )

The newspapers in Bombay, of the next couple of days; from 30 years ago.

I still remember the panic at home, when we heard an AI 747 had gone down. For the second time in about 8 years, my mother was besides herself trying to find out if it was my father's flight that was the unfortunate victim. After several calls to AI ops & movement control, she was told it was not. He was, however, in Perth.

The last time my old man flew Kanishka was in April of that year.

The Air India crew newsletter, published in July 1985 was dedicated to the crew. My father lost some good friends and co-workers that day. On this second to last flight to Toronto, Capt. Narendra visited my uncle in Ottawa, and spent a weekend with him at his place. Capt. Bhinder served in the Indian Air Force with my father, though in different transport squadrons.

Kanishka's delivery flight - on her stop over at LHR, Sept 1978.

I always found this cover to be a graphic representation of perhaps her very last moment.

My personal reminder of a great airplane.

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The_Goat · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:23 am Post subject:

Sad day for Indian aviation.

What makes it worse is that other than that one guy who pleaded guilty for manslaughter, none of the other perpetrators have been brought to book and will most likely not every be. The Canadians, for all their talk of efficiency and being "committed to justice", made a mockery of the trial by destroying evidence and generally scr***ing things up.
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sabya99 · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 6:17 pm Post subject:

I remember the day after the crash of Emperor Kaniska at international terminal, JFK airport. The doom and glum of meeters and greeters clearly visible to me. Hopefully domestic politics will not spill overs to airline business again.
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sumantra · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 4685 Location: New Delhi

I remember that ghastly day, especially the evening, when a reporter of The Statesman came to our place. One of the people on board was a neighbour, one of my father's colleagues. Dr. Y. Nayudamma was a famous scientist on board the ill-fated plane (whom my father happened to know, as well). Our acquaintance had boarded the plane at JFK. The next few days in the locality were completely unnerving. His nephew had gone to Cork, subsequently. Very sad memories...

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himmat01 · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL

I clearly remember that day. Captain R P Mathur and dad informed me about the tragedy that evening. They then drove down to Captain Bhinder's place to meet his wife and kids.

Captain Bhinder's son is now a Captain in 9W.

Flight Purser Sampath Lazar's son serves in AI as Flight Purser.
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TKMCE · Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 957

Very sad memories

Sampath Lazar's family was on the plane except one son.
I remember my father speaking then about Dr Nayudama being on board. He was a former head of CSIR.

sri_bom · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore

Sad day for Indian aviation. I remember I was in high school when this incident happened and if memory serves right there were more bombs placed which blew up at Narita but luckily the plane was on ground.

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sumantra · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 4685 Location: New Delhi

himmat01 · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL

It's Sanjay Lazar. He was brought up Mr. Silvera who was also a Flight Purser in AI.
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sumantra · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 4685 Location: New Delhi

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justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

I guess this is the person in question
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sanjay-lazar/6/28/b73

And by the looks of it, he got into a fair bit of trouble -

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-air-india-union-leader-defends-leave-asks-bombay-high-court-to-restrain-inquiry-1465877

sumantra · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 4685 Location: New Delhi

The_Goat · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:46 pm Post subject:

sumantra · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 4685 Location: New Delhi

himmat01 · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL

Jaysit · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 4346

Thanks for the Online Memorial to the Crew and the Aircraft.

Very well-done and heartfelt.

I was at MIT back then, and remember waking up on Sunday morning to the news on the Indian radio channel in Boston. As an Indian, one can never forget the moment one first heard of the crash.

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