Three weeks before the date of the flight, J.R.D. had suffered a minor heart attack but recovered quickly. Seeing his steely determination, his consulting physician and cardiologist decided to permit him to fly because the emotional strain of abandoning his cherished dream could have been even greater than the physical strain of flying. On 15 October 1982, J.R.D. Tata, seventy-eight years old, took to the skies and flew once again from Karachi to Mumbai to recreate that pioneering first flight of fifty years ago. His old friend Captain Vishwanath was his co-pilot. All the way from Pakistan to
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