This is yet another poorly written hatchet job from the current king of yellow journalism in India: the Times of India.
Many media houses, the ToI in particular, have been carrying on a slander campaign against the national carrier AI/IC for the past many months, where the smallest, tiniest incident is blown way out of proportion. Apparently this is being done with the full blessings of the Minister and his friend who owns an airline himself.
While the smallest incident concerning the national carrier gets blown up on television, at the same time major incidents affecting private airlines, especially KingFisher are not reported anywhere.
To those who have been keeping track, In the past year itself, KingFisher has had no fewer than 16 incidents, ranging from wing of the A320 brushing a building (at IXA), to numerous botched landings including atleast 2 instances of their ATR's going off the runway: once in Mumbai BOM.
The Minister of Civil Aviation is himself neck deep in corruption and is one of the main reasons for the sad state of affairs at the national carrier. It is this gentleman who overruled the DGCA findings for action against Carver Aviation who were found guilty of issuing fake licenses.
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