When an air ambulance from Pune to Delhi crashed over a building in a densely populated area in Faridabad on Wednesday night taking all lives aboard, it doused a 26-year-old’s dreams of a job abroad.
Cyril P. Joy, one of the seven victims of the accident, was about to put an end to his five-year long stay at Delhi to go to Kuwait when the tragedy struck.
The news that the promising life of their son had been cut short prematurely by fate came as a rude shock to parents Joy and Reethamma. Sound of wailing could be heard all through the day from the family’s home at Kavana in Vazhakkulam village, Muvattupuzha.
Two sisters of Cyril also could not hold back their tears as the realization set in that the brother who had left them one month back would never return.
Cyril had been serving as a male nurse at the Apollo Hospital in Delhi. It is learned that he had been a frequenter on the air ambulance sorties.
The house of the victim was mostly deserted till afternoon as the body was yet to reach there. The body is expected to be brought to the Dharmagiri Hospital in Kothamangalam by 7.30 p.m. today.
The aircraft belonging to Delhi-based Air Chartered Services India Private Limited had been hired by Apollo Hospital to transfer a critically ill patient from Patna. Strong gusty winds due to a dust-storm were reported at the time of the crash.
