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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While the notice is directed at an individual pilot, its language points to wider systemic concerns, particularly around how repeated defects are tracked, escalated and ultimately resolved within airline operations.

And I'm sure they will review the systemic issues that lead to an entire flight crew, whose lives depend on the equipment they are issued, just being okay with said equipment randomly malfunctioning, or not existing at all.

Because if I was an Indian airline pilot, I would be cheerful and joyful if my life was endangered in such a way, or just wouldn't notice if the space in which I spend most of my workday smelled of smoke.

And of course the question "are you comfortable declaring a company aircraft not flightworthy if it is required" will get asked, and other Air India pilots will take this whole thing where it's clear this is systematic and being pushed on a single member of a single flight crew will not take this as a signal to never ever speak up if the plane looks like it will fall on a school and kill a whole bunch of people in a spectacular fireball.

Fuckers.