On Monday morning, Air India staff at the city airport waved goodbye to one of their last ‘Queen of the Skies’ — the iconic Boeing 747 aircraft that served the airline for almost five decades operating commercial, VVIP and evacuation flights.
As the double-decker plane took to the Mumbai skies enroute to the US, a ‘wing wave’ maneuver also marked the end of an era for Air India, which started flying in 1932 and is now owned by the Tata Group.
‘Wing wave’ is a dip of the aircraft from one side to the other in the air that is generally done for retiring aircraft.
