Seconds after an Air India Dreamliner began taxiing to depart from London’s Heathrow for Ahmedabad, the commander learnt that a ground staffer had left his cellphone in the aircraft.
Probably having lived through the anxiety that a misplaced phone brings on, the pilot, in an unprecedented handling of a mundane situation, decided to stop the aircraft and have a flight attendant open a door and drop the phone to its owner.
The generous gesture, however, didn’t go to plan. What unfolded instead has turned flight AI-176 into arguably the world’s first documented case of nomophobia-led deployment of an emergency inflatable slide-raft and consequent flight delay of almost two hours. Nomophobia, of course, is the fear of being without one’s cellphone.
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