Colonel (Dr ) Anil Athale (retd) has raised much din about "Ganga', a beautifully engineered Fokker Friendship aircraft of its time. But the hard boiled intelligence officials, it appears from Colonel's dark hints, were thinking of engineering of a different kind. And if what Colonel alludes to is true, what did their machinations amount to? First, total disregard for the safety of the civilian passengers aboard the aircraft. Second, probably just to establish their credentials, the next set of real hijackers had to kill the young bridegroom.
