AI: Rough Carrier

Ai rcra ft Maintenance has come into sharp focus after the crash of Air India Boeing 787- 8 Dreamliner, operating as Flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, on June 12. A total of 241 passengers and crew on board the Boeing Dreamliner and 29 people on the ground lost their lives. The London-bound aircraft had crashed into a buildingof BJ Medical College campus, moments after it took off, from the SardarVallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. One passenger,Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, seated on the now famous and much sought after seat - 11 A seat, survived the disaster. He is a 40-year-old British businessman from Leicester. He was discharged, after recovery, from Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, only to be carrying out the funeral rites of his cousin, who also had died in the same air accident. Such isthe irony and human misery being faced by many. Today,s Economics pays tribute to all those who lost their lives as well as those who survived the ordeal. Whereas there is ...