Air India AI 171 Crash in Ahmedabad (12 Viewers)

[Muzh]

Import from Airbus.
No point snide comments like that Bri'ish mulla over >"what about India's indigenous project hahaha"

I am neither British nor a Mulla. Also, my remarks were not snide. It is tragic that not enough money was allocated towards developing indigenous civil aircrafts. India is a very big country. If India continues to depend on foreign made aircrafts, it will continue to experience security challenges. You may call me a jingo for my overt enthusiasm and faith in India's industrial capabilities.

My shoes are Japanese.
My pants are English.
But, my heart is Indian.

 

[Bhartiya Sainik]

Our country is currently like noodlesmix of good & bad people, with bad ones mostly in management, while good guys struggle a lot.
Many retired pilots are unofficially exposing airline industry in general, mistakes of maintenance crew & pressurizing managers.
Gaurav Taneja a.k.a. Flying Beast" already gave many podcasts. Many others too.
When pilots are dead, the airline & jet maker might wanna blame pilots due to various reasons.
In Indian IT industry the TCS along with some others like Wipro, TechM, HCL, etc, perhaps Infosys too, w.r.t. certain types of projects, are known as "sarakari" companies & i would also say that Indian management is mostly(not all) less efficient looking for bad shortcuts, even in foreign MNCs managed by Indians in India like Accenture, Cognizant, IBM, etc.
That's we are mostly users not makers, service oriented & not product oriented & our R&D & manufacturing are limited or absent in biggest & most complex things, with few exceptions like ISRO, DRDO, etc.
I already said many times w.r.t. defence PPP that these tycoons like Tata, Ambani, Adani are typical profit oriented 'baniyas'. They don't have R&D mentality beyond automobiles, that too in colaboration. For bigger things they wan't a setup for production of ready made proven technology.

 

[Varoon4]

Don't expect anything from NAL whose funding is even poorer than Mumbai City Corporation income. Those guys took some 20 years to dust off the HANSA Trainer to HANSA NG only to get torpedoed by Canadians when Rotax declined to sell the engine stating possible Military use.

We hear a lot about the US deep state, which is generally not friendly toward India. What about the Canadian deep state? Canada at the level of government, security agencies, academia and perhaps most of all, media, is not terribly friendly toward India either. Scrutiny, negativity, sensationalism, one sidedness, putting on airs of moral superiority, these are all traits of deep state aversion to India. Canada has serious issues with empathy( including India's experience with colonialism) nuance and subtlety when it comes to India. It probably all comes down at the end of the day to dislike of a non-white, non-Christian country being independent minded on a whole range of issues; India's potential if not actual competitive ability in many sectors; a very developed space, defense and nuclear sector; a very large population...all overlain by at the least a smattering of racism, though that is not always readily apparent. After all, the same sourness and negativity doesn't exist, to the same felt degree, for Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, South America and African countries, a casual observer could state.