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Forgive and Forget

[Dr. Dhananjay Singh Tomar @DstDhananjay]

Indian people watch the same circus every few months.

• 2021-batch IAS Dhiman Chakma
• Caught red-handed taking ₹10 lakh bribe
• ₹47 lakh unaccounted cash recovered from his residence
• Suspended
• Arrested
• Spent time in custody
And now?
Reinstated.
Posted as Deputy Secretary in Odisha government.

This is India.

IAS, IPS, SDM, big officers ~their houses get raided.

Lakhs, crores in cash recovered.

Gold bricks found.

Camera crews outside.

Headlines scream “caught red-handed”.
Then 3-4 months later… silence.

You forget.

The news cycle moves on.

And the man is back in power.

Ever wondered what actually happens to these people?

A system still running on colonial-era rules designed to protect the powerful, not punish them.

Where “investigation continues” is just a polite way of saying “nothing will happen”.

Where suspension is temporary theater.

Where the same faces return to the same chairs after the public stops watching.

You get outraged for 48 hours.

They get their jobs back for the next 20 years.

That’s not justice.

That’s the system working exactly as designed.

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@AnchitGupta9 @netflix Brilliant! Very balanced perspective!!

[अमित सिंह (वराह)𝒜𝓂𝒾𝓉 𝒮𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒽 @flyingamit]

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Three guarded switches on the A320 maintenance panel. Energise them and the aircraft does what VT-EXO did on 4 August: every flight control surface released, full hydraulic warnings, recovery in seconds, no fault to find afterwards.

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@manishasinghal So true, because of him some very serious technical failures are being brushed under the carpet. The Airbus report does not even talk about the Stall warning, because that's taboo and would open a can of worms!!

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@David272757 @shukla_tarun @Airbus @airindia Looks like I have touched a raw nerve!! Hmmmm!!!

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@shukla_tarun @Airbus @airindia This incident is turning out to be another AI174, with Air India repeatedly misleading people... first the turbulence canard, then the 'High Pilot' canard and now the Hydraulic Canard.

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@sjlazars @shukla_tarun @Airbus @airindia Well to be fair, they said this on 10 Aug in reply to a query put up to them on 4th Aug

[Griffin @6ESinger157593]

The Pilot, the Positive Test and the Missing Link

Air India AI2379 raises questions that a drug test alone cannot answer

Air India flight AI2379, an Airbus A320 flying from Phuket to Delhi, suffered a sudden loss of about 300 feet during cruise on August 4. The aircraft recovered and landed safely, but 17 passengers and crew were reportedly injured.

Then came a second, seemingly unrelated development. Both pilots underwent mandatory post-incident drug testing. The co-pilot reportedly tested negative. The captain’s initial screening was “non-negative”, followed, according to media reports, by a confirmatory laboratory result positive for cannabis. Both pilots were subsequently removed from flying duties.

The finding is serious. But it is not, by itself, an explanation for what happened to the aircraft.

That distinction matters.

A toxicology test can establish exposure to cannabis. It does not necessarily establish impairment at the precise moment an aircraft encountered an abnormal flight condition. Cannabis metabolites can remain detectable after the psychoactive effects have diminished. Nor can a routine urine test reliably establish when consumption occurred, or whether it took place in Thailand, India or elsewhere.

This creates the first uncomfortable question: what exactly does the positive result tell us about AI2379?

Indian aviation regulations understandably take a stringent approach to psychoactive substances among safety-critical personnel. The regulatory question is therefore relatively straightforward: was there a prohibited substance in the pilot’s system? The accident-investigation question is considerably harder: did that substance affect the pilot’s performance during the incident?

The two questions should not be conflated.

There is a second problem. Public reporting has referred variously to technical abnormalities, flight-control issues and possible crew inputs during the altitude excursion. None of these explanations has, at this stage, been established publicly. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau will have to examine the flight-data recorder, cockpit-voice recorder, aircraft systems, weather, crew actions and medical evidence together.

That is important because aviation accidents rarely respect neat narratives. A technical malfunction can coexist with human error. A pilot can make an inappropriate control input while responding to an unexpected system failure. And a positive toxicology result can be significant from a regulatory perspective without being causally connected to the accident.

The temptation, particularly in a fast-moving news cycle, is to allow the most dramatic fact to become the explanation for everything else.

Investigators should resist that temptation.

Aviation accident investigation is fundamentally about causation. It asks not merely what was present, but what happened, in what sequence, and why. A positive drug test may ultimately prove highly significant. It may also prove irrelevant to the altitude excursion.

For now, the public record does not establish impairment, the timing or circumstances of consumption, or a causal connection between the toxicology result and the aircraft’s loss of altitude.

The positive test is therefore a finding. It is not yet the missing link.

And until the evidence establishes that link—or conclusively rules it out—AI2379 remains a story with two parallel investigations: one into whether a pilot breached aviation safety rules, and another into why an aircraft carrying hundreds of people suddenly descended 300 feet.

Confusing the two would be as dangerous as ignoring either.

[Tarun Shukla @shukla_tarun]

New :

- @IndiGo6E CFO Gaurav Negi gone

- Airline appoints Kiran Thadimarri as its new CFO

- Negi's tenure ends tonight, and going forward he will report to IndiGo promoter and MD Rahul Bhatia as his advisor

✈️

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@shukla_tarun @airindia @EconomicTimes In light of the now published interim report, it is apparent that Boeing knew what was wrong with the aircraft.... and these theories were just a way to 'prepare the turf' to save their skins

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

A sham of a preliminary report, this kind of data would have been available within hours of reading the FDR on 24th Jun.... what were they doing all these days???

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@shukla_tarun @MEAIndia @PMOIndia @RamMNK @airindia @IndiGo6E India should close the Airspace completely for all aircraft. The revenue loss for Pakistan will be tremendous, in addition to the internatonal pressure that will come to bear on them to reopen.

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@viskum54 @drgunjand Parashuram the great warrior, was a vegetarian who killed many many humans...many such examples,but giving you the one you would relate with!!! Don't unnecessarily stretch an argument

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@snehamordani How many days do you work?

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@NatGeoIndia @StargazingIndia

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@shukla_tarun @Captbandicoot #astronomy @nightskynetwork @BBCStargazing

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@shukla_tarun @Captbandicoot #astronomy @nightskynetwork @BBCStargazing

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@AnirudhTyagi111 @CaptShaktiLumba @airindia @DGCAIndia @MoCA_GoI @IncomeTaxIndia What happened bro, some pilot rubbed you the wrong way???

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@wolfofx Do check out the Chola empire

[CloudNine @aviatorsanil]

@shukla_tarun @Airbus 22 hours including time zone gains??? So what's the actual flight time?