Midnight Madness: 5 International take-offs from Mumbai Airport!

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Channel: Rishad Ghiara · 2015 · Autos & Vehicles

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Watch as 5 major International Airlines take off from Mumbai airport and head towards their various destinations.

The airlines are Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Malaysian Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Swiss.

They were seen over a span of 3 hours from 11 pm to 2 am.

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One evening, I had gone to my friend's house in Santacruz, and from the terrace you can see the planes taking off.  I had spent the night there.  We were on the terrace from 11 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. watching all the International flights take off.  It was a pleasure watching each plane taking off and roaring over our heads, as they passed under the moon and then slowly disappeared into the night towards its destination.  We then came to his house and slept for an hour.  At 4:15 a.m. we went back to the terrace to wait for the incredible Emirates A380 to take off.  It is a massive double decker plane.  It was worth disturbing our sleep to watch this takeoff.

Finally at 5 a.m., we retreated back to our beds.  We were not supposed to wake up till 9.  But at 7 a.m., we realised that the wind direction had reversed and they had started using the runway in the opposite direction.  So planes were landing from this side instead of taking off.  We rushed back to the terrace to see planes coming in on their final approach.  We got barely 3 hours of sleep that night, but it was really worth it.  One of my most memorable nights.

We saw a variety of different airlines : 
Air India, Jet Airways, Indigo, Spice Jet, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Swiss, Malaysian Airlines, Emirates, Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France, United Airways, etc.

..and a variety of different aircraft :
B737-800
B747
B777-300
B777-300ER
B787 (Dreamliner)
A319
A320
A330-200
A330-300
A380

That was one hell of a night, I really enjoyed my friend's company, I thank him for the amazing time!

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