Surprise donation marks untimely death of brilliant railway engineer
THE four granddaughters of one of India’s greatest railway engineers, who spent many of his student years in the 1920s gaining practical experience on Britain’s railways, including the LNER and the Welsh Highland Railway, have made a surprise donation to the WHR to mark their grandfather’s untimely death in an air crash 50 years ago.
The engineer, Khurshed F Antia, died aged 63 on May 28, 1968, when the Convair CV990 aircraft that was taking him from Bombay to Amsterdam crashed just seven minutes after takeoff. There were no survivors, and the crash remains a mystery as the aircraft’s four engines that were recovered were deemed to have been working at the time of the crash, and the black
