I remember those days vividly. Soon after the 2nd botched landing Mari had a cartoon; Pataudi at the bat when a linner approaches, wheels out.
"Hej", Pataudi shouts at the plane's captain from the pitch: "This is not the Santa Cruz airport. This is Cricket Club of India." Alfred's reminiscences of oddities. > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:20:09 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: [Goanet] On a Wing and a Prayer ! > > which aircraft (fighter plane) did he fly? > > -- Albert Peres > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Bombay Flying Club was home to Britain's famed but tiny Tiger Moths. > A JAL pilot goofed and landed his DC9 on their Juhu mini-strip in 1963. > Another five hundred yards would have drowned him in vats of steamy East > Indian moonshine. > It must have taken a special effort, but in 1975, a JAL DC9 pulled it off > again at a small club strip in Flushing, New York. Abandoned now, that > waterlogged tarmac is home to hundreds of nesting gulls. > Stop picking on George: the prominent Divar beak has steadied the rudder > of many aspiring careers in India. eric.
