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The unbearable heaviness of being (an Air India CEO). Spotlight: Campbell Wilson
As the airline seeks to revitalize and reinvent itself as a global carrier to rival the very best, Campbell Wilson will have to navigate a minefield of operational challenges, cultural shifts, and the imperative of modernising a vast, ageing fleet.

Prashant Kavi (PK)
Jul 278 min read


[AI171] Opinion: The shameful desecration of Aviation's hallowed ground.
Expectedly, the preliminary report has unleashed a tsunami of discussions, debates and discourse on mainstream and social media, but regrettably, most of it being illogical and/or insensitive.

Prashant Kavi (PK)
Jul 186 min read


[AI171] A technically sound, logically deduced, respectfully nuanced, plausible root-cause-of-accident hypothesis.
So according to @HeyFixThis, the probable cause [for loss of thrust on both engines at take-off], "... was a combination of Fuel Shutoff Valve (FSOV) activation due to a cascading electrical system failure".

Prashant Kavi (PK)
Jun 2613 min read
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