Pointing out stories you may have missed. Residents of the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) are wondering how long it will take to remove a disused Boeing 737 that has been abandoned in a busy road. The decommissioned aircraft was being driven through the city at the weekend when the driver got lost and then abandoned the plane. The Boeing used to belong to the private company Air Sahara.Some locals are angry that no action is being taken to move the plane. Others say it is a tourist attraction. It appears that after taking a wrong turn, the driver found himself facing a flyover that was too low for him to take the plane under. The driver has not been seen since and no-one is assuming responsibility for the 737.
News source: BBC.
FOOTNOTE: Any Mumbai bloggers out there? We’d love to hear your take on this, maybe even with a picture of the plane!
6 comments:
Interesting story indeed. Here's a link (URL) to BBC coverage of it with a picture:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6620461.stm
If the plane remains unclaimed I'm wondering if someone like the adversely affected small business people in the vicinity cannot just take possession of it and make a killing selling it off as scrap...
Hi Sandip,
You always come in with an extra perspective or a pearl of wisdom. Thank you for being the sort of person that you always have been.
That's a great train of thought - salvage rights at sea belong to the ``retriever'' of a vessel - so maybe the same law will apply to the 737.
Must keep track of the story. Thank you for the link.
Cheers
David
Hi David,
See my blog here.
I was in the process of writing this post when you knocked at my door. :))
You'll get the whole story with pictures. I am posting it on my other blog as well.
Take care & Enjoy !!
Hi Cuckoo,
Must have been mental telepathy! Will check your post.
The funny thing is that despite all my trips to Bombay/ Mumbai, I dont think I've ever been to Chembur!
Take care
David
You beat me to it!
I was gonna write about this on my blog... but you have captured it much better than I could have..
I thought that was funny, and for me, I say (with my head bobbing and with an Indian accent), "only in India"!
cheers,
Cecilia
Hi Cecilia,
Your writing on India is so accurate and so sensitive that I would love to see you post the story anyway.
Please do so ....
Cheers
David
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