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The perils of an aircraft put at a client’s disposal
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Like high-altitude air, evidence of marriages being made in heaven has always been thin. Even if done at a considerable height above the ground, a whole set of temporal rules apply, as the Madurai couple that got married on Sunday aboard a SpiceJet Boeing 737 chartered for the purpose would have discovered. The groom, a businessman, arranged a special flight for over 150 guests to circle the city’s Meenakshi temple while rituals were performed mid-air, before the aircraft returned to Madurai airport some two hours after take-off. A celebratory gaggle around an exchange of garlands is a common sight of terrestrial matrimony, but a video clip of similar festivity (without masks) on this plane drew the attention of India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). In response, the regulator took the flight’s pilots and cabin crew off the flying roster, directed the ‘no-frills’ air