Originally Posted by
oliver2002
I remember flying on EDW between BOM and CCU sometime after the hijack. It was a ratty A300 just like the other ones, you wouldn't have noticed its past. IC retired it just like the other first gen A300s it had. From airfleets.net I read that it was traded in with Airbus.
Are you sure about this? FWIK this bird was cleaned up after being flown to BOM by Capt.Nivedita Bhasin - but was then put on active standby duty primarily because it was considered jinxed. It has been used on sub duty only twice flying back pax from CCJ and MAA when other A300's went tech.