A series of blasts triggered a wall crack, causing groundwater to flood the Mahabir colliery .
Jaswant Singh Gill designed a custom steel capsule to extract the miners through a newly drilled borehole . mission raniganj
On the morning of November 13, 1989, at the Mahabir Colliery, a breakthrough occurred in the underground workings. The miners accidentally breached an adjoining abandoned gallery filled with water. The resulting inrush was rapid and catastrophic. While many miners working near the lift shafts managed to escape, 65 miners were trapped deep inside the galleries, cut off from the surface by rising water levels. The stakes were immediate: the trapped miners had limited oxygen, rising water, and no food or light. A series of blasts triggered a wall crack,
Gill personally went down into the flooded pit to coordinate the rescue, completing the mission in approximately six hours . 🎞️ Plot Summary The stakes were immediate: the trapped miners had