Front page of Gujarat Samachar of 29 October 1988

Flashback to the tragedy. See this front page of ‘Gujarat Samachar’ of Thursday, October 20, 1988. An Indian Airlines plane that took off from Mumbai crashed near Chiloda village, three kilometers from the airport, before landing in Ahmedabad early in the morning. All but five of the 132 people on board died instantly. The cause of the accident? The plane had hit an overhead high-tension electricity wire in dense fog and had immediately burst into flames. Truly, one shudders to know all this….

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