Air Tragedy
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IAF crash: In India, it’s cheaper to launch rescue missions than invest in safety systems
Our approach to safety has been reactionary rather than preventive.
KP Sanjeev Kumar
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Human remains recovered from debris of EgyptAir flight MS804
The deep sea vessel commissioned to the site will return to look for any other remnants that will prove useful to the investigators.
Scroll Staff
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Flydubai to give $20,000 to families of air crash victims
Investigators said it will take weeks to decode information from the flight recorders because they were very badly burnt.
Scroll Staff
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Karnataka forms SIT to probe ‘obscene videos’ case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna
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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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Germanwings flight 4U9525: a victim of the deadlock between safety and security demands
The aims of safety and security are not always on the same team, sometimes with disastrous results.
Yijun Yu, The Conversation
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Why authorities were so quick to dismiss terrorism as the cause of the Germanwings crash
If a Muslim – or an Arab – were flying the plane, the first judgement would probably have been very different.
Annalisa Merelli, qz.com
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A crash with no obvious cause: we must wait for answers from Germanwings black box
The crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 in the Alps with the loss of 150 lives will have left grieving families wanting answers, but all we can do is wait.
Kevin Byrne, The Conversation
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