Technical issues and aircraft's last safe landing
Ahmedabad: In a chilling twist of fate, passengers on Air India flight AI172 from London to Ahmedabad unknowingly experienced what would be among the aircraft's final hours of service.
Heena Kalariya, who arrived on the same plane described a flight plagued with technical issues. "My phone started buzzing with calls about the crash. It's surreal to think we were on that very aircraft just hours earlier," she recalled. Kalariya said the flight had malfunctioning air conditioning system, and none of the internal display screens worked. When concerned travellers sought explanations, cabin crew dismissed these issues as technical glitches, she said.
Most disturbing, Kalariya said, were the unusual rattling sounds in the aircraft during landing. What felt like inconveniences took on a haunting significance in light of subsequent events. Just two hours after Kalariya's safe landing, tragedy struck.
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