{"id":160304,"date":"2025-06-16T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=160304"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:52:40","slug":"traffic-saved-me-indian-woman-avoids-air-india-crash-as-she-misses-flight-by-10-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/160304\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Traffic saved me’: Indian woman avoids Air India crash as she misses flight by 10 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bhoomi Chauhan would also have been on board Air India’s crashed AI171 plane, had she not been delayed by just 10 minutes, the BBC<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Ms. Chauhan, a business administration student who lives in Bristol with her husband, had been visiting western India for a holiday.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old was due to fly home on AI171 on Thursday, which crashed shortly after take-off, killing 241 people on board and more on the ground.<\/p>\n

She remembers being angry and frustrated. Bumper-to-bumper traffic had delayed her car journey to Ahmedabad airport – so much so that she missed her Air India flight to London Gatwick by just 10 minutes. As a result, after arriving at the airport less than an hour before departure, airline staff turned her away.<\/p>\n

Ms. Chauhan says: “When I missed the flight, I was dejected. Only thing that I had in mind was, ‘If I had started a little early, I would have boarded the plane’. We got very angry with our driver and left the airport in frustration. I was very disappointed. We left the airport and stood at a place to drink tea and after a while, before leaving… we were talking to the travel agent about how to get a refund for the ticket. There, I got a call that the plane had gone down.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC’s Gujarati service, she adds: “This is totally a miracle for me.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bhoomi Chauhan would also have been on board Air India’s crashed AI171 plane, had she not been delayed by just 10 minutes, the BBC reports. Ms. Chauhan, a business administration student who lives in Bristol with her husband, had been visiting western India for a holiday. The 28-year-old was due to fly home on AI171 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":160296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}