TAIP items related to Karachi: 1. On 2nd November 1957, a “Vickers-Viking” CR-IAD came to grief at Karachi airport when it crashed into the fire brigade headquarters building, fortunately with no loss of life. (http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19571102-1 )
2. On the night of 17th March 1958, a TAIP skymaster, "CR-IAF", was on a routine flight from Aden to Karachi. The airport at Karachi was suddenly covered by an unexpected impenetrable fog, and the air-traffic controller suggested Bombay as an alternative airport for landing. However, the pilot requested "landing on the responsibility of the pilot", with ILS aid. With visibility of 50 yards and zero ceiling, the plane landed safely and the crew were congratulated at this feat by the control tower for the "best landing of 1958" (José Krus Abecasis) PS It was impossible for the crew to land at Bombay, for had they had, they would have been arrested for violating Indian airspace, due to political conditions prevailing at the time. Gabriel de Figueiredo ----- Original Message ---- > From: Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, 2 August, 2010 9:54:34 AM > Subject: [Goanet] TAIP > > Karachi, TAIP and Estado da India Portuguesa: > http://www.historyofpia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12446 > * * * > > In every way, the Goans of Bombay were part of the great melee that was this >metropolis, distinct perhaps in the way communities often are, holding on to >their own traditions but merging slowly nonetheless and forming the thin >thread >of nationhood that would eventually become India. -- Selma Carvalho, in *Into >the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph >+91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. >http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ > > * * * > * * * Was life in the *kudds* glamourised? Who said, "It appears that the Goanese (sic) are a roving people, prepared to go to any part of the world for well-paid employment"? How did Goans find their first toehold in the Gulf? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
