Air disaster visits India again; 160 lives lost in a split second

After a long time, a passenger plane has crashed in the country, at the Mangalore airport, of whom about 50 persons are apparently from Kerala.

Mangalore airport is quite convenient for people of the Malabar areas in Kerala. A lot of them are working in the Gulf countries. And this Air India Express flight has been coming to Mangalore airport from Dubai.

Quite miraculously eight of the passengers could jump out from the jaws of death to the living world as they got a toe-hold in the form of a gape on the burning aircraft after it split.

They could be the luckiest people on Earth, for all those who were around them in the aircraft, at arms length, had all perished.

The Serbian origin commander of the aircraft had ample flying hours of experience with him. The co-pilot was an Indian. And so there could be no communication gap on account of the language problem.

Initial reports speak about the aircraft having overshot the runway on account of a dislocated landing.

The aircraft might have touched down farther than the spot it should have landed. Escaped passengers have recounted over television channels that the pilot had applied brakes several times, but the aircraft hit building structure, caught fire and fell into the ravine nearby.

Life for all these people were a slip between the cup and the lip. They have flown all the way from Dubai and reached Mangalore, but they could not have the blessing of a safe landing. They have paid dearly for their lives for no fault of theirs.
Can we make our flights fool-proof and save the lives of the passengers?