Patience First
The temptation to settle on a convenient explanation after a major aviation disaster is understandable.
The temptation to settle on a convenient explanation after a major aviation disaster is understandable.
According to the airline's statement, flight AI479 "marginally infringed" into Pakistani airspace, which remains closed for Indian airlines.
An Air India Airbus A321 operating between Delhi and Amritsar briefly entered Pakistani airspace after a navigation system snag. The aircraft returned safely to Indian airspace following an alert from Pakistani ATC and later landed in Amritsar after a diversion to Delhi.
One year after one of the worst aviation disasters in Indian history, the most unsettling reality is not that the final answer remains elusive. It is that, in the absence of definitive findings, competing certainties have rushed in to fill the void.
The plane took off. It never landed. 260 people left the ground that afternoon, only one came back. Milan Sharma lost his sister. Now he is making sure no one forgets.
“There’s so much unrest in the world,” she shared in the post. “Every flight feels heavier now, not just because of the skies, but because of the headlines we carry with us.”
The Nayak of Bollywood, Anil Kapoor traveled through Air India. Making his journey even more special, he received a sweet note from the staff on the flight.
He termed the plane crash a "rare case”, wherein over 270 people were killed. "It has never happened that both engines have shut down together," the minister said, referring to pilots and experts’ views that a dual engine failure may have led to the crash.
The Parliamentary Committee on Transport is likely to meet in the first week of July to discuss air safety issues in the wake of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, sources said.
The findings of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) following its special audit of aircraft maintenance practices at the country’s two busiest airports ~ Delhi and Mumbai ~ serve as a timely and troubling reminder of the cracks widening beneath the surface of the nation’s booming aviation sector.
