From the Archives (April 19, 1971): Air India’s first Jumbo Jet welcomed
April 19, 2021 00:15 IST
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April 19, 2021 00:15 IST
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Air-India’s first Jumbo jet “Emperor Ashoka” touched down at the Santa Cruz airport at 8-23 this morning [Bombay, April 18]. More than half a lakh people who gathered in and around the airport clapped and cheered as the jetliner swung to a perfect landing, slowed down and shut off its engines as it came near the shamiana. Earlier three Indian Air Force M.I.Gs rendezvoused with the Jumbo, 50 kms. south of Bombay and escorted it to Santa Cruz. The “Emperor” flew over the city to enable the citizens to have a look at Air-India’s new acquisition.
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HYDERABAD: Right by the very busy Mumbai Highway (NH-65), stands a small, beautiful and secluded structure at Ameerpet. Nearly a 100 years old, the structure is a private cemetery of an extremely illustrious Hyderabad family, and though it is well-maintained, both the structure and the stories of those buried there are largely unknown.
Among the persons buried here are four Padma awardees, as well as the man who was entrusted with the construction of Begumpet Airport.
The structure was completed in 1926 by Dr Edith Boardman, an Englishwoman, as a resting place for her husband Syed Hossain Bilgrami an educationist and scholar who also worked in multiple roles under the Nizam. His great grandson Raza Bilgrami, 69, says when Bilgrami was in England, he was suffering from some health issues.