Ratch says he didn't know what was happening or what the delay was. He could hear people talking nearby, eating lunch. Ratch: "I wondered how long I could last in this heat" The flight from Mumbai to Singapore was about 2,500 miles.
In 1964, one of the best javelin throwers in Australia traveled to England to see if he could qualify for the Olympics. But, because of an injury, he didn’t make the team - and he couldn’t afford a plane ticket home. So he came up with an idea while working a cargo job at Heathrow Airport: “I saw them shipping animals. And I thought, well, if the dogs can survive it, I could.”