THE hands on Brahmanie Hastawatie’s watch showed 9:40pm. In line with the schedule, the Boeing 747 should already have taken off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta. The passengers however, were still filing into the cabin. Brahmanie was greeting them at the front door.

There was nothing out of the ordinary, until the moment when the cabin crew supervisor turned her attention to one of the seats in business class, where Pollycarpus was