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Canada News.Net
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Canada News.Net
Incident is absolutely terrifying: Bhoomi Chauhan, who missed Air India flight by 10 mins
Bharuch (Gujarat) [India] June 13 (ANI): Bhoomi Chauhan, a resident of Gujarat's Bharuch, narrowly escaped death when she missed Thursday's ill-fated flight which crashed, claiming the lives of 241 people on board the Boeing 787-8, Air India flight 171, including 12 crew members, Air India confirmed post-midnight on Friday. While speaking to ANI on Friday, Chauhan recounted her experience, 'We arrived at the check-in gate 10 minutes late, but they didn't allow me, and I returned. They said that it would delay the flight further. I was late because of traffic in the Ahmedabad city area. When I came to know that the flight had crashed, I was totally numb. I thank my mother Goddess that I am safe, but the incident is absolutely terrifying.' Chauhan's mother attributed her daughter's survival to the blessings of the Mother Goddess, telling ANI, 'We thank Mother Goddess for protecting my daughter. She left her child with me, and it's all because of the Mother Goddess blessings; because of that child, she is with me..' Chauhan's father explained that traffic congestion had caused them to arrive late at the airport, and despite their requests, they were not allowed to board the flight. '...We arrived at the airport late because of traffic. We requested, but they didn't allow us. When we came out of the airport, we received the news that the plane had crashed.' Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Air India plane crash site in Ahmedabad and reviewed the ground situation, a day after the AI-171 flight bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad International Airport here. The Prime Minister arrived in the city this morning and proceeded to the site where the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner -- carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed. He was briefed by officials on the situation. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, State Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi and other officials accompanied PM Modi during his Modi then proceeded to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital to meet with those injured in the mishap. Upon his arrival in the city today, PM Modi was received by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Union Ministers Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu and CR Paatil. There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national on board the crashed plane. Miraculously, one person, a British national of Indian origin, survived the crash, airline authorities said. The aircraft was piloted by Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain with 8,200 hours of flying experience, assisted by First Officer Clive Kundar, who had logged 1,100 flying hours. According to Air Traffic Control (ATC), the aircraft departed from Ahmedabad at 1339 IST (0809 UTC) from runway 23. It made a Mayday call to ATC, but thereafter, the aircraft did not respond to the calls made by ATC. Immediately after departing Runway 23, the aircraft crashed outside the airport perimeter. A formal investigation has been launched by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the deadly crash of Air India flight 171 that killed 241 people onboard. The government was also constituting a high-level committee of people with expertise in multiple disciplines to examine the crash incident and devise ways to strengthen aviation safety by preventing such incidents in the future. (ANI)
The Hindu
01-07-2025
- General
- The Hindu
From The Hindu, July 2, 1975: Soil fertility ritual in Indus civilisation
Chandigarh, July 1: Rituals of worship of Mother Goddess and fertility cult in various parts of India and other parts of Asia were inseperably connected. This is revealed from a study of excavation in the Indus Valley according to Prof. Himansu Bhusan Sarkar of Midnapore in West Bengal. Some terracotta figurines discovered in Southern Sind bore remarkable affinity to those from Mohenjodaro and Harappa and from pre-Harappan sites of northern and southern Baluchistan. Many of the figurines from Mohenjodaro were painted with red slip or wash and those from Harappa even retained the traces of paint, the red being the fertility symbol, he said in a paper presented at the All India Oriental Conference held at Kurukshetra. Prof. Sarkar said the magical rites to preserve the fertility of the soil belonged to the special competence of women, whose child-bearing capacity was comparable to the productive nature of earth. The clan life, in which the mother headed every family, created Mother Goddess and raised her to the supreme position. In primitive conception such Goddesses needed human sacrifice among other things. Prof. Sarkar said in this context, some seals from the Indus Valley appeared to be quite interesting. One such seal from Harappa showed a nude female figure, with legs stretched upwards, head downwards, with a plant issuing from the womb. On the other side was found a female figure with dishevelled hair and arms upraised in fright, with a male figure threatening her with a shield-like object in one hand and sickle-like object in the other. 'It seems to me that both the nude female figurines refer to the same victim before her sacrifice to the Mother Goddess,' he said and added that Vedic religion did not appear to include human sacrifice in its rituals to propitiate Mother Goddess or Mother Earth.
The Independent
15-06-2025
- The Independent
The ‘miracle' delay that saved student from Air India crash
Bhoomi Chauhan, 28, missed the Air India flight that crashed, killing 241 people on board, due to a traffic jam, causing her to arrive at the airport ten minutes late. Chauhan, a business administration student from Bristol, was turned away by airport staff and was initially frustrated about missing the flight and the possibility of a ticket refund. After leaving the airport and learning about the crash, Chauhan described her survival as a "miracle," while her mother attributed it to the blessings of the Mother Goddess. The Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport en route to London Gatwick, killing 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian. India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, along with teams from the US and UK, is investigating the crash, with the recently found black box expected to provide insights into the cause.
Hans India
14-06-2025
- Hans India
Arrived at check-in 10 minutes late, missed flight
Bharuch : Bhoomi Chauhan, a resident of Gujarat's Bharuch, narrowly escaped death when she missed Thursday's ill-fated flight which crashed, claiming the lives of 241 people on board the Boeing 787-8, Air India flight 171, including 12 crew members, Air India confirmed post-midnight on Friday. While speaking to ANI on Friday, Chauhan recounted her experience, 'We arrived at the check-in gate 10 minutes late, but they didn't allow me, and I returned. They said that it would delay the flight further. I was late because of traffic in the Ahmedabad city area. When I came to know that the flight had crashed, I was totally numb. I thank my mother Goddess that I am safe, but the incident is absolutely terrifying.' Chauhan's mother attributed her daughter's survival to the blessings of the Mother Goddess, telling ANI, 'We thank Mother Goddess for protecting my daughter. She left her child with me, and it's all because of the Mother Goddess blessings; because of that child, she is with me..' Chauhan's father explained that traffic congestion had caused them to arrive late at the airport, and despite their requests, they were not allowed to board the flight. 'We arrived at the airport late because of traffic. We requested, but they didn't allow us. When we came out of the airport, we received the news that the plane had crashed.'
Canada Standard
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Canada Standard
Incident is absolutely terrifying: Bhoomi Chauhan, who missed Air India flight by 10 mins
Bharuch (Gujarat) [India] June 13 (ANI): Bhoomi Chauhan, a resident of Gujarat's Bharuch, narrowly escaped death when she missed Thursday's ill-fated flight which crashed, claiming the lives of 241 people on board the Boeing 787-8, Air India flight 171, including 12 crew members, Air India confirmed post-midnight on Friday. While speaking to ANI on Friday, Chauhan recounted her experience, 'We arrived at the check-in gate 10 minutes late, but they didn't allow me, and I returned. They said that it would delay the flight further. I was late because of traffic in the Ahmedabad city area. When I came to know that the flight had crashed, I was totally numb. I thank my mother Goddess that I am safe, but the incident is absolutely terrifying.' Chauhan's mother attributed her daughter's survival to the blessings of the Mother Goddess, telling ANI, 'We thank Mother Goddess for protecting my daughter. She left her child with me, and it's all because of the Mother Goddess blessings; because of that child, she is with me..' Chauhan's father explained that traffic congestion had caused them to arrive late at the airport, and despite their requests, they were not allowed to board the flight. '...We arrived at the airport late because of traffic. We requested, but they didn't allow us. When we came out of the airport, we received the news that the plane had crashed.' Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Air India plane crash site in Ahmedabad and reviewed the ground situation, a day after the AI-171 flight bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad International Airport here. The Prime Minister arrived in the city this morning and proceeded to the site where the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner -- carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed. He was briefed by officials on the situation. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, State Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi and other officials accompanied PM Modi during his Modi then proceeded to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital to meet with those injured in the mishap. Upon his arrival in the city today, PM Modi was received by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Union Ministers Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu and CR Paatil. There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national on board the crashed plane. Miraculously, one person, a British national of Indian origin, survived the crash, airline authorities said. The aircraft was piloted by Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain with 8,200 hours of flying experience, assisted by First Officer Clive Kundar, who had logged 1,100 flying hours. According to Air Traffic Control (ATC), the aircraft departed from Ahmedabad at 1339 IST (0809 UTC) from runway 23. It made a Mayday call to ATC, but thereafter, the aircraft did not respond to the calls made by ATC. Immediately after departing Runway 23, the aircraft crashed outside the airport perimeter. A formal investigation has been launched by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the deadly crash of Air India flight 171 that killed 241 people onboard. The government was also constituting a high-level committee of people with expertise in multiple disciplines to examine the crash incident and devise ways to strengthen aviation safety by preventing such incidents in the future. (ANI)
