Sorry Hartington, got a bit carried away ! Touche !
No information on flight fuelling rules at AI but it is NOT common to have the SAME weather at JAI as DEL which is why since time immemorial flights have waited out at JAI for the fog in DEL to go away. Points about conditions being known at time of take off are well taken and same about alternate choices, but the airline that appears to be run more by bureaucrats than flyers can and does have strange rules so am not surprised if said Capn might have been bound by some other factors. Having said that read this, also reported by the Mumbai Mirror " http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Hero-pilot-averted-another-major-disaster-moments-after-Jaipur-blind-landing/articleshow/28530513.cms"
I do feel sorry for those poor people who have to be in the cockpit of an AI aricraft.. See this for example
Woman pilot makes skilful emergency landing after plane loses nose wheel - The Hindu
On top of it all you have this
Exclusive: Will the DGCA be able to save its face on October 23? : Featured, News - India Today
A grateful nation can only make heroes and heroines of such commanders.
