Wings of Duty

Wings of Duty — Page 39

39 Bombay and returned to Lahore. He would go on to fly the second L-5 plane to Qadian with me. From here on in, I would fly one plane and he would fly the other. The first people to migrate from Qadian to Lahore left on 25 August 1947. Most of the female members of the Promised Messiah’s as family were part of this group including his widow Hazrat Amma Jaan ra. The car at the head of the convoy was a blue Dodge wagon which belonged to Sahibzada Mirza Mansoor Ahmad. His wife, Sahibzadi Nasira Begum, had three days earlier given birth to a baby boy, Mirza Maghfoor Ahmad, who later became a surgeon in the US. Therefore, a thick mattress was laid out on the floor of the car for mother and child to lie on. That day, I was also flying to Lahore from Qadian. I recognised the convoy between Amritsar and Batala from the blue Dodge. Even though I had no such orders, I decided to land in a field near the road the convoy was travelling on. I left the plane’s engine running and walked a few steps towards the head of the convoy. The cars also stopped when they saw me. Since everything was in order, both the convoy and I continued to Lahore. When I reached there, I phoned