Grandfather clock joke……
There are many jokes out there. But this joke which I read a long time ago in Reader’s Digest stands out and is always there in my memory. So I thought I will share it with you guys.
A guy is walking on the road. He is carrying a big grandfather clock which needs to be repaired. He crashes into a woman and she falls down.
She gets up, dusts herself and says to the man……
“Hey man, why don’t you wear a wrist watch like everyone else.........!!”
Pilot suicides a deeper delve….
In my previous article I had talked about the Mystery of the MH370 flight. In this case one can always argue how do you know it is a pilot suicide…?? Can’t there be any other reason. Of course there can be other reasons but my speculation rests on expert opinions. After carefully considering and setting aside all other scenarios we arrived at the scenario where only pilot suicide could not be ruled out. Okay we will set aside the speculations about MH370 and step into the world of confirmed pilot suicides.
It has happened in 4 different airliners in 4 different nations.
1. China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 (speculated, investigation still underway)
2. Egyptian Airliner EgyptAir Flight 990
3. African Airliner LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470
4. German wings flight 9525
Of these the second and third although there is clear evidence, but the conspiracy theory shenanigans have turned it out into speculation matches and mired it in so much muck that the facts and evidences are lost in the conspiracy theory angles.
Let us consider the German wings pilot. It is a confirmed case of pilot suicide. The pilot (Andreas Günter Lubitz) who did this act (in this case ramming an airline against the French Alps, himself dying and taking the lives of more than 100 people with him) was a young pilot who had everything to look forward to in life. He had a girlfriend, a good paying job, job respect (more importantly) and more…..so why did he commit this act..?? For this we have to delve deeper into his mind.
When people are severely depressed only one thought goes through their mind. How to commit suicide….? While outwardly they look normal, inside a raging battle takes place in their head. They just want to die. And what easier way to take it out than to crash the airliner with them. These instances (pilot suicides) although rare still exist and we have to take some safeguards against them. We should do more psychological testing on pilots to find any underlying cause(s).
In case of the Germanwings flight, although the captain of the airliner knew what was about to happen he couldn’t prevent it due to 9/11 procedures. The cockpit door was so reinforced that you just couldn’t breakdown and enter it. Germanwings is the low cost carrier of Lufthansa. Again corporate apathy also played a significant part here. Instead of knee jerk reactions corporate(s) should reverse their policy to prevent such accidents from happening again. In this case Lufthansa did not take any responsibility for the crash and only paid the victims minimum compensation. They shifted the blame to the testing authorities, in this case the doctors for not finding it (by ‘it’ I mean the pilot’s mental state).
My suggestions regarding this. The pilot had been taking medications for severe depression for the past few years. He should have been more thoroughly vetted by the organization before letting him fly. Whenever people are flying (they say it is the safest form of travel) we are putting our lives in the hands of pilots. They should show some moral responsibility. If you wanna die why don’t you die alone. It is one of the biggest conundrums………..
A Decade of MH370....................
The name MH370 has become synonymous with the disappeared Malaysian Airlines flight. It has been exactly a decade to the day since the flight disappeared. Over the years, I have seen so many documentaries about it and read extensively about it too. Apart from speculations to witch hunts nobody could solve the puzzle. And a puzzle it is, because with modern day navigation techniques, GPS and trackers on every cell phone, a flight disappearing appears so outlandish. But disappear it did. One article that stood out was an article in ‘The Atlantic’ that gave a hypothetical step by step account of what could have happened.
Well my thoughts on the disappearance of the airliner are………..
Like I had said earlier in modern day aviation and satellite trackers a flight disappearing seems so outlandish and impossible. But then it did happen. Which is why I think the whole process must have been deliberate. And who more so deliberately could have done it, but none other than the pilot.
Sherlock Holmes although a fictional character made a lot of observations (in turn through the author Arthur Conan Doyle). One of his observations was….”If you have eliminated all the facts and only one fact is left out, that fact however improbable it may be must be the truth”. That exactly applies to the Malaysian Airlines flight.
What most probably happened was a pilot suicide. This guy the pilot (Zaharie Ahmad Shah) although many say was an experienced pilot and say he has no reason to do it, had a lot of personal issues. I strongly suspect that he was the culprit.
Not only was he facing personal marriage issues he had done a simulation in his personal computer of flying a Boeing deep into the Indian Ocean and abandoning the aeroplane over these treacherous waters. That I strongly believe is a bread crumb he left as to what he had done with the entire flight.
For whatever it was he has managed to hide the secrets extremely well for the past decade. I hope a well mounted search operation resumes and the flight is found under water and all the questions are put to rest aside. Meanwhile the pilot (Zaharie Ahmad Shah), must be turning in his watery grave which most probably was his own doing with a owlish glee on his face. A face which I would gladly slap if given the slightest chance.
P.S
Here is one to a successful recovery of MH370 remains and solving its mystery….CHEERS !! ‘Zaharie Ahmad Shah’ if you wanted to die why didn’t you kill yourself ?……why did you have to take more than 200 innocent lives with you when you died ??
They say that Lord Ganesha is the remover of all obstacles.....I saw this sketch of the Lord @ Annapoorna Hotel, Sai baba Colony a couple of weeks ago when I went there for lunch. Took a photograph for reference and sketched it using my own hand.
Note:
Pencil and Black Faber Castel colour was used to fill in the gaps. Thank You!
Corona.......my opinion....
By the time I got to write this the word ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’ have become the watchwords of the world. A lot has been written about corona to the point that when people see the word corona and an article they break out in hives. But bear with me on this and try and read my view on corona.
The pandemic has been done to death now. But when it was in its peak everyone was shit scared. These are my thoughts on the Corona Virus. I feel that the Virus probably jumped from a lab, either accidentally or deliberately in China. Because no other virus in the history of mankind spread so evenly across so many different nations.
Now that the world has returned to a semblance of normalcy, we have to be on the alert for future Viruses like this. Everybody don’t lose your caution. Wear MASKS no matter what others think about it. Let’s still be careful and not lose our sights.
Prayers for a Safe World.
