On August 4, 1979, the parents of Nandini Dighe, a Mumbai-based (then Bombay) air hostess with Indian Airlines, had booked three tickets for a Saturday night movie show they wanted to attend with their daughter. Nandini, however, failed to return home by 9.30 pm and the parents, who were used to such delays due to last-minute rescheduling of flights, left for the film hoping to see their daughter at the theatre or at home upon their return.
Nandini didn’t return home that night. In fact, the following day, the parents had to travel 10 miles east of the city to a hilly area near Panvel to look for their daughter who had died along with 44 other people after the Pune-Bombay flight that they were travelling in came crashing down at the spot the previous night.
