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Apropos of the subject of this thread, any incident in India, no matter how small, trivial or insignificant brings out the hordes of aviation bureaucrats, airport functionaries and other self-starting pencil pushers in droves, and invariably makes the local near-disaster headlines the next morning. And we think we have it bad with the journos here.
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Well may be if a "near disaster headline" was made of these incident, maybe someone would have been asking the question of whether anything could be done to improve things, esp since two incidents appeared to have happened one after the other. Tthe incident was hardly reported by local media.
Unfortunately Indian aviation journalism seems to be mainly confined to feeding off "offcial press releases" or quoting off airline propaganda fed to journos taken on sponsored junket!
And dont write off the aviation bureaucracy in India as totally worthless . The official regulator's site (
www.dgca.nic.in) has improved by leaps and bounds over the years , and continues to improve over time. Same with the airports, and while some of the airports like BOM may still need improvement, airports like MAA and TRV (esp the domestic terminals) have become modern comfortable ones which are a pleasure to use. And airport security despite all the horror stories many people (esp those who have never flown in India recently) think, are polite and efficient!
Yes there may still be scope for improvement, but considering the fact that even now, when considering that 80% of the whole aviation in frastructure in India is govt controlled, the changes over the last few years have been remarkable!
Cheers