Sujata Survase, the 25-year-old Air India air hostess from Mumbai who lost her life in the Mangalore crash on Saturday, chillingly enough seemed to have had a hunch about the impending tragedy. Her last status update on a social networking site said: "I hate goodbyes but I guess it's time."
Sujata, who lived in Andheri, had a BA degree in philosophy from Bhavan's College, Andheri. According to her networking profile, she believed in Buddhist philosophy, loved dancing to hip hop, swore by the television show Friends and hated books, which she mischievously described as "good sleeping pills".
The young woman, who had been working with Air India Express for the last three years, was expecting a transfer back to Mumbai, after postings in Cochin and then Mangalore. She loved her job. "I believe I can fly and so I am" she wrote in her job description on her profile. "She had struggled a lot to become an air hostess. She first worked at a call centre for two years and kept trying to clear exams for cabin crew training," said Divya Sherpa, a neighbour of the Survase family. "She was thrilled to have got her first