Explore an Abandoned
Aircraft
This Weekend near Mumbai!
If you love exploring and finding new places, this read is
meant for you. It’s always quite an adventure to venture into the unseen and
find things that are lost or forgotten. And it’s a treat when you stumble upon
these things unexpectedly without any prior notice. This week, The Happy
Getaway brings you a guide as to how you can get to an Abandoned Aircraft of
Sahara not too far away from Mumbai left at the Marshy Grass lands of the
outskirts of the city. If you love exploring the unknown and discovering the
lost, then this point is surely a destination, you’d like to jot down in your
diary.
So, I’ll tell you how I stumbled upon this place, in the
first place. I was off a few days ago to visit a waterfall in Khapoli, with a
few others. And on my way on the left hand side we suddenly noticed a huge
Aircraft parked in the middle of the fields. At first we wondered if this was
from an accident like in the movies, where people were stranded and needed to
be rescued or was it just a haunted place where locals would forbid you to go
from. As we drove a little ahead we realised that further from the aircraft was
another large building that looked like an abandoned factory of sorts, which
was quite frightening in itself having huge clown like figures and moss all
over its walls.
After making a stop close by we decided to the adventurous thing,
and explore. So we parked a bit away and began exploring. There are two
entrances to reach the Aircraft I would suggest the one near the gate of a
resort which is comparatively less mossy (subject to rains of course). And
there’s the other way which we took that leads from the spooky building but is
super mossy (so be careful) and leading up to electricity towers that you walk
past to reach the aircraft. So first we walked through the factory and realised
on discussing with the caretaker, that it use to be a water park that couldn’t
pay its due’s and now the bank is holding the land as ransom. Seeing majority
of the park, demolished and left in pieces we decided to not venture further.
We then walked through the mud, muck and puddles and soon
reach concrete land. Yeah? Concrete land in the middle of the fields, that’s
right so unexpected. And we then further went on to walk to the aircraft. And
no it was no dummy, make believe aircraft. It was huge, like any real aircraft
you have seen and been in. Yet out of shape, old and dusty. We looked around,
to soon see that the door was shut and birds had nested itself in the wheels.
And yes, the wheels were taken out too and it was supported by a stand like
structure now. We then saw an old man (we assume is also a caretaker), walk
suddenly in surprise and tell us more about the aircraft. How it was bought by
someone a few years ago, and is used now for shoots and commercial events. Had
Ac attached and a stair way through which one could get in. He said we were
unlucky and just a day before there was a shoot and we could have gotten to see
it from the inside. (Darn!) But well, it was still quite a lot of fun to run
across something mid journey and get to know about it.
So I can’t lie and tell you that it isn’t a scary ordeal and
that you should venture doing this alone. Because you wouldn’t see people for
miles and miles accept a few care takers around, who to be honest don’t look to
be the most trust worthy. So I’d advise you to take care, and preferably take
someone along. Cause exploring together of course is always a more fun filled
experience. Also would be advisable to explore during the day, as there is little to no lighting provision around the aircraft. But you never know, maybe there’s a shoot happening the same day you visit,
and your able to explore the insides of this abandoned aircraft.
Would love to know your experiences of visiting abandoned
places and how you managed to find your way through. I hope this article
inspires you to go visit the aircraft or some abandoned place near you, sure do
tell us about.
Hope you have a safe, happy and adventurous weekend.
Edited
& Written by Alvin Anthony
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