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We live in a culture obsessed with romantic rescue narratives. From fairy tales to modern media, we are subtly conditioned to wait for a “knight in shining armor”—someone who will step onto the battlefield of our lives, slay our dragons, and offer unyielding protection and devotion.

On a fateful day on December 9 Thursday 1971 , an otherwise usual flight from Trivandrum Airport which took off at 12.10 p.m and was scheduled to land in Madurai as per schedule had an unexpected occurrence of colluding into a hill in the Meghamalai Hills few minutes after its take off. Nearby residents from…