Made it back to Bangalore
After the Air Deccan folks said it would take few hours to get the flight fixed, we (me and my sister) headed into Hyderabad city and wasted out time at a coffee shop in one of the city malls. Luckily there was a scheduled LJ meet of
Before I got back, I had a chance to talk to the pilot of my aircraft which got hit. He said the actual hit was pretty small. Basically the bird left a dent on one of the wings and the issue was really nothing and was no major threat to the flight. He wanted to fly but apparently the dent was 2mm more then the “allowed airline dent limit” and the ground crew refused to give the airline permission to fly unless they fixed the issue. Now to fix the issue, they had to pick up the spare part from Hosur, get it to Bangalore, fly it to Hyderabad and then fix it.
Though they made us wait for hours, I am happy that folks in India take airline safety quite seriously.
I wonder how much of that incident was people taking airline safety seriously v/s babus taking stuff as laid down in a rulebook hairsplittingly seriously
hehehehe, I like that line:” babus taking stuff as laid down in a rulebook hairsplittingly seriously”… and sometimes they are real serious about it!
I must say you have a very simple ,yet addictive style of writing blogs.
India learnt redtape bureaucracy from probably the best teachers in the world – the british civil service, pre 1947. Add a huge dose of “parson” .. and you have a tentacular monstrosity that’s extremely good at splitting hairs.
(parson is a hindi word that’s pronounced like the o has an umlaut on it, means either “yesterday” or “tomorrow”, and is the local equivalent of mañana)
Air safety is a joke in India
On the contrary not all airlines take air safety seriously in India, especially private airlines. Since they can’t maintain an inventory of costly parts (these usually have to come from USA,France etc.), the staff is overworked and they don’t have many fallbacks. Its just a miracle that we haven’t had any serious incidents. How do I know?, I come from a long line of people working in the airline industry, grandfather worked in DGCA, father worked in the engineering dept. for a national airline and an uncle’s an engineer working for a private airline and thats all they seemed to be talking about when they got together.
-rohit
Re: Air safety is a joke in India
Any scary incidents you can share ?
He’s been here for over 3 years now. 😉
Pity that you couldn’t stay for longer, but atleast we did take roll call. Now, you’ve officially visited. :o) The meet.
The pictures will be up soon. By the 6th, pukka.
Allright to add you to my reading list?
Gaaaaa! I’m not really ghetto or anything; but it’s “da” basher. :”>
Get back to the jungle !!
I read your blog quite often as its very interesting with all the adventures. I am sorry to say, but your life in the city is not as exciting as your life in the jungle ( not that your life should revolve around exciting random people on the net ) , but Kalyan get back to BRT and give us back Discovery Channel on the Net !!!
Re: Get back to the jungle !!
I miss the forests too. can’t wait to get back. INfact am back tomorrow 🙂