{"id":642415,"date":"2024-04-24T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=642415"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:06:21","slug":"air-indias-queen-of-the-sky-takes-off-from-mumbai-for-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-indias-queen-of-the-sky-takes-off-from-mumbai-for-the-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India\u2019s \u2018queen of the sky\u2019 takes off from Mumbai for the last time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Mumbaiites living in the vicinity of the airport might have witnessed something highly unusual \u2014 and somewhat scary to the untrained eye \u2014 on Monday morning. At 10.47 am, a huge Boeing 747 with the Air India colours took off, tilted to its left and then to its right, before flying away into the skies.<\/p>\n<p>No, this wasn\u2019t anything to be worried about. The jumbo jet had done a \u201cwing wave\u201d, a highly-skilled manoeuvre used to mark a pilot\u2019s final flight or the retirement of an aircraft. In this case, it was the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Air India is bidding adieu to its four last remaining Boeing 747s, marking the end of an era for the iconic jumbo jet in the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Mumbaiites living in the vicinity of the airport might have witnessed something highly unusual \u2014 and somewhat scary to the untrained eye \u2014 on Monday morning. At 10.47 am, a huge Boeing 747 with the Air India colours took off, tilted to its left and then to its right, before flying away into the skies. No, this wasn\u2019t anything to be worried about. The jumbo jet had done a \u201cwing wave\u201d, a highly-skilled manoeuvre used to mark a pilot\u2019s final flight or the retirement of an aircraft. In this case, it was the latter. Air India is bidding adieu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}