“This is the BBC” the voice over said as the news “programme” came on the air. Heading the news from London was the story of an Air India 747 that had just crashed into the Indian Ocean after take-off from Mumbai (BOM) en route to London Heathrow (LHR). Reportedly with 435 passengers and 18 crewmembers. Saddened by the news, he thought of his cousin Sunil, who, last he could recall, was a pilot with Air India®. Hopefully, he was not on that flight. One of his best friends, Adil, had also been, until recently, a co-pilot for Air India.
About an hour or so later, a white four door Ford Grand Marquis™, with U.S. government plates, white with blue lettering, and a few “official” sticker decals placed on the lower left and lower right of the windshield, with a small spirally radio antenna on t
