A Retired Aircraft Engineer Is Giving Poor Kids A 'Flight To Nowhere' For Just $1

December 7, 2015

A retired aircraft engineer offers impoverished Indians the chance to fulfill their dreams of air travel for only $1.

The twist is that aircraft never leaves the ground, earning it the nickname "the flight to nowhere."

pilot takes kids on flight to nowhere
Credit: Barcroft TV

58 year-old Bahadur Chand Gupta from Haryana in northern India, purchased the decommissioned Airbus 300 in 2003 for £60,000. Parked on the outskirts of New Delhi, on the periphery of the capital's International airport, the plane is mostly visited by children and the region's underprivileged citizens.

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