HIIIII Guys...
Hope u r all doing gr8. We reached chennai (India) last tuesday 27th around 4.30am & guess what.. Before I give u an update abt my mom.. folks...I have to tell u a small terrific experience we had.
We started from Dulles Washington Airport On sunday 25th around 10.00pm (Eastern time) in British Airways to London and got connecing flight to chennai on Monday 1:00pm (london time). Its about 10.5 hrs journey from London to chennai. It would have been around 4.5 hrs of travel time, the captain spoke to us telling the flight would be landing in Abu Dhabi (saudi arabia) as there is a technical fault (hydraulic failure) in about 2.5 hrs time from now. All videos/maps on the TV are blank..Some people were still sleeping and others playing and eating...my mom looked panic at me.. I said it should be fine...I spoke to one of the crew member and he said its a very minor problem and they should fix it very quickly and they will arrange for stay & everything @ abu dhabi. I felt good and told my mom we could see abu dhabi... We were just waiting for the landing... After 2.5hrs, the captain spoke again and said that he did contact BA engineers in london and as per them the captain would fly the plane to chennai & not abu dhabi. My mom felt happy (thought the problem was resolved) but I was little concern and was making trips to the tail end to see if I get any information. Because we know there is a technical fault and its better to fix and fly rather than flying for another almost 4.5hrs. The anxiety was killing me. One of the passengers said that the instructions from london is to fly the plane to chennai is to consume the fuels ??!!@@ which made me think.. is it gonna be emergency/crash landing??? and guess what Yes it is....
About 1.5 hrs before landing to chennai the seat belt sign is on...crew were running here & there.. we started hearing strange suction noise from under the plane belly...(when asked one of the crew..he said its coming from the toilet suction pump..blah...blah...). The captain was talking...said the noise is bcas there is no hydraulic fluid and they are abt to shutdown the mechanic pump and the noise should go off...the crew would be instructing us the safety procedures and everybody to be very very attentive to that...
About 1.0 hr before landing..the crew started teaching each & every individual on the plane on how to get on to the emergency position (brace brace) and pull the oxygen and slide on the door way etc... Now everybody started panicking, praying and crying...Captain says..we are trying our level best for a safe landing attempt... Moment of silence for the next 40 minutes....Some trying to get their important stuffs from their bags...
About 20 minutes before landing... the plane started decending from roughly 22,000 feet (No map yet) slowly... we could see the runway and we could hear the pilot is trying to bring down the nose wheels...he is making attempts...flight goes 2nd round the runway...3rd....4th....and its moving dead slow...its past 35 minutes of scheduled arrival....and finally captain tells...attempting landing....brace brace....everybody goes in the position shouting brace brace...we hear a THUD THUD ...sound....that's it.. the plane lands but no brakes & since the speed was very very slow...it runs runs and stops almost at the edge of the runway....we see fireengines, ambulances running across....the pilot shuts off the engine and after abt 30 minutes.. it gets towed away to the terminal....VOW..finally we arrived safely....& next day...this was in the local newspaper (incorrect information though) . Here is the link :
http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID={24BD807D-305B-4A5B-B930-ABCB9BB8C9D7}&CATEGORYNAME=CHNNow coming to my moms case :
We met the doctor the next day, consulted the neuro surgeon and the also radiology group (for more than 3 hrs) and now looking @ the tumor..they say X-knife would be a better option than translab surgery. They have moved our appnt for radiosurgery for the 4th (coming wednesday). We got confused and just today we went to another neuro specialist and he says...surgery...Now we are totally confused once again. We are getting one more opinion tomorrow and we will be deciding either surgery or RF by tomorrow.. Fingers crossed....
Will update u more ASAP....
Shiva
If RF, it will be on 4th
