its just another un-fortunate accident.
Very easily and comfortably said...ask Wg Cdr Azhars wife, kids and parents...do they also think same ???
Especially in Aviation world, accidents dont just happen
.they have a long tail , a history and a chain of errors / omissions that lead to accident , and before an aircraft or its component finally breaks up in the air, it had already given one thousand indicators that its going to break
.Sometimes,those indicators are either overlooked or purposely ignored because somebody thinks that nothing will happen or wants to project that all is well and when some accidents happen, they come up with lines, Just another un-fortunate accident or Allah ki yehi marzi thi
how lame..
Accept it. We are not a safety conscious Nation. In 95% of the cases, we dont like to wear seat belts while driving, while constructing new building we dont have any fire exit plans, have you ever seen the webs of electric wiring even in few modern localities, we like to hang on the door or sit on the roof of the bus instead of waiting for the next one, we work with electric equipment without taking safety precautions etc etc..I can go on and on
..Same people are in our armed forces with same frame of mind. Although, strict checks and inspection schedules are followed but still people do tend to lax unconsciously because by nature we dont care about safety.
We have a reactive approach to safety instead of preventive. We only act when something has happened and do nothing to prevent it beforehand. In mid 80s, Base authorities at Sargodha were screaming that animal incursions on runways/taxi tracks is on rise and nobody gave a F**K about that until we lost an F-16B that was hit by a wild boar and then the emergency measures were taken to stop animal incursions and since then we did not have any accident due to this reason. Do you know that how many A-5 pilots lost their lives when it was finally decided to install Martin Baker. Or how many pilots were killed, when finally someone decided to phase out F-86s. And do you know that in last 10 Mirage crashes, 05 were ex-Aussies and to put the record straight, do you know that the last three Mirage crashes were from the same base and from the same squadron? In last six months,
Wing Commander Faisal Mumtaz ejected after
engine failure and is still unfit due to injuries after ejection,
Wg Cdr Akram Ranjha died after
engine fire and now
Wing Commander Azhar is dead because the
engine seized to work
.three very senior and experienced officers gone within few months
.all in Mirage
.all due to Engine problems
and do you still think that its just another unfortunate accident...
I have no clue that how many more pilots we have to loose before somebody realises that something is wrong somewhere. We need to be
preventive than reactive and hope that sanity prevails,otherwise its not far that very soon we will have another Mirage making a hole in ground with pilot still strapped to seat.
