mindFly Katha

On 4 August 2026 an Air India Airbus A320, registration VT-EXO, operating flight AI 2379 from Phuket to Delhi, encountered a sudden vertical excursion in cruise over Odisha. Seventeen people were reported injured. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau has taken up the investigation, with the French BEA participating as accredited representative and Airbus providing techn...

Opinion · Regulation & Human Factors

On 14 January 2025, an Airbus A320 with 146 people on board was approaching Runway 28L at Dublin. The commander had 7,784 hours, of which 7,623 were on the A320. Within four minutes the aircraft reached a bank angle of 44 degrees, fell below its minimum selectable speed twice, a...

Two Indian aviation crises, and the attitudes they exposed

Character is revealed under stress. It is usually said of people. It is truer of organisations, because an organisation under load loses the ability to curate itself. The considered statement gives way to the reflex, and the reflex is the culture.

India has had two large tests recently. In December 2025 th...

The problem: attention wanders off constantly — roughly a third of your waking life — and occasionally it does so at a moment that costs a life. The instinctive fix is to demand more focus, more discipline, more vigilance.