Air India as usual gets itself into
trouble. The Air India A-319 aircraft sucked in Ravi Subramanian at
Mumbai Airport when he was working and this has opened doors for a new
debate regarding safety of ground staff.
The
common ideology is that airplanes are more vulnerable while airborne
and experts say chances of wrong things are higher when airplane is on
ground. A senior pilot said, "It is just as simple as that. Airplane is
meant to fly and when it is on air, it is of no problem. But when it
reaches land it is more vulnerable.
The
start procedures may appear very easy and less stressful. But they need
more tactics. The main reason for this mishap is the communication
between Pilots and Ground personnel. There is zero visual contact
between pilots and ground personnel. There are chaos at all 'Indian'
airports.
Dubai airport handles more
traffic compared to New Delhi or Mumbai but we do not feel so much
stress there." Another pilot said that the radio channels are not
proper. Everyone are flooded with calls and that leads to other
problems.