Housing from another accident 15 years ago: ‘I cannot travel alone, when the aircraft get nervous during landing, there are nervous attacks’. Bharat News

“I remember the accident occurred at the time of landing. The accident led a rift in the aircraft’s body. I remember I was struggling with the seatbelt, but I managed to remove it and get out of the burning plane. I broke my leg and harassed the injuries of the day that still harasses the day.

He says that his body does not let him forget the incident. “Every step reminds me of that day. I cannot run like others or raise heavy objects. I am also suffering from anxiety and nightmare due to accident. The news of Ahmedabad accident has made him worse,” says D’Souza. However, he says that he was given a compensation of Rs 48 lakhs, “Never promised a job in Air India”. A year after the 2010 accident, D’Souza rode his first flight after the accident.

“I had no choice. I was working in Dubai at the time of the accident. I had to return to work after my treatment. Forget that first journey after the accident, I don’t travel alone till this day.

Like D’Souza, 62 -year -old Kulikunu Krishnan was one of the remaining people of Mangalore Air Crash in 2010.

At the time of his “second birth”, Krishnan, who was working with a private firm in Dubai for nine years in 2010, says he was returning to Kannur’s home in Kerala after a two -year gap.

“I was in Road 17, near the Left Wing. Flight came out, but then it started moving and flowing. Rona flashed from all around. Then, the plane hit something – I felt that it was rubbing the terminal – and the cabin was filled with smoke. As I felt the death was certain, I climbed on the roof of the aircraft. ‘

The crack in the torso, he says, led his “second birth”. Krishnan says that he slipped from that crack and climbed on the torso -soaked torso. “It was raining. Since there was nothing, I fell from the plane’s body and got stuck on a tree. Some other people like me were able to get out of the aircraft, which was on fire,” he says.

Back to the ground, Krishnan recalls that others survived and they were fond of the bush to reach the nearby railway track.

“On the track, the locals took us to a hospital. Everything was over in a case of seconds. I only realized the gravity of the tragedy once in the hospital once,” they say who was in the hospital for a week.

The following months were strict on Krishnan who runs a grocery store in Kasargod. “Sleep left me for weeks. Even thought of sitting in a bus scared me. I refused to leave the house for months after the incident. Finally, I needed to consult to overcome my fear,” he says.

And he did – two years later riding in a flight from Mangalore Airport. He said, “I went to Qatar on the visa of a visitor. Since 2010, I have flew three times – all from Mangalore Airport. I last fly in 2017,” he says.

A few rows behind Krishnan’s row 17 and in the plane of that day had a line KP Mayankutti of Kannur in front of D’Souza’s line 23. “That seat number-22-F-is in my mind,” he says.

Then 48, Mayankutty had been working as a public relations officer (Pro) with a Dubai -based shipping firm for seven years and flying homes for his annual one month holiday.

“I had a window seat. As soon as the aircraft landed, it started blowing badly. Then, it hit something heavy and rolled down from the hill. I started crying. I started crying on one side of the aircraft and the flames were spreading rapidly. As soon as I felt that I felt that smoke would kill me, I saw the cracks near my seat. I thought without thinking.

Mayankutty says that she received a compensation of Rs 5 lakh from Air India for her head injury and a five -day hospital.

For six months after the accident, Mayankutty refused to fly. In fact, he says, he also told his employer in Dubai that “I was not coming back”. He says, “All sounds frightened me – a machine, an engine, even a blender.”

Then, a year later, Mayankutty had to go back to Dubai. “My son runs a printing press in Dubai and asked me to meet him. I took a flight to a Emirates from Kozhikode (in Kerala). Since the accident, my wife always fly with me. There was a plan to see our son in Dubai this month. After reading about the Ahmedabad tragedy, I posted it, I have posted it,” he said.