Months after his death, as Mrs Gadgil knocked on every possible door withinthe Indian Air Force and the Ministry of Defence, she was met with cold staresand a whisper campaign that almost called her a traitor. But Mrs Gadgil refusedto give up and sought answers to her pertinent questions: How did her son die?What was wrong with the MiG-21? Why were so many of them falling out of theskies?