ON THE MANGALORE PLANE CRASH

ON THE MANGALORE PLANE CRASH

What wilt thou call it?

The curse of science

The lacuna of technology

The loophole of engineering

The rash planning of the planners

The recklessness of the pilot

The device of the devilish Doom

Or, the helplessness of the churlish challenger of God?

N.B: May 25, 2010: An Air India Express plane from Dubai overshot the table-top runway at the Mangalore airport on Saturday morning and plunged over a cliff into a wooded valley, killing 158 persons.There were 160 passengers and six crew members on board Flight IX-812. The passengers included 137 adults, 19 children and 4 infants. Eight passengers survived miraculously. SOURCES /PIC. –THE HINDU, GOOGLE

 GLOSSARY:

 Mangalore – {Now called Manguluru} is a city of Karnatak, India

lacuna – a place where something is missing in a piece of writing or in an idea, a theory etc./a gap

loophole –a mistake

rash – careless/reckless

recklessness – thoughtlessness/ irresponsibility

device – contrivance/making

churlish – rude/ bad-mannered

©Shankar D Mishra 15.09.2017

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