Gautam, Mangalore

Dear all, This is what aviation is all about and the reason why pilots are being paid for. TOGA is an emergency procedure. You must be bothered about the well being of the passengers and not criticize Air India. Air India being a PSU is always in the news. Do you get news about any other airline,no, so you think those airlines are operating without any emergency and are safer than Air India. The case is not that. They donot flash their news. Incidents are subsided. you come to know only a few. Every airline has these sort of situations.

Aviation safety is something one has to read and then understnd. So please, simply donot comment without knowing what Aviation is all about. A passanger pays money and flies. In the background there is much more than one would have thought. So appreciate the pilots capability on landing in bad weather on a runway as that of Mangalore. Every pilot has to be cleared for operating on such a runway after being cleared by a check pilot for minimum 3 landings. On a table top runway with the ongoing weather condition and wind direction a pilot has to be much more careful. Hope you all understand.Thanks.

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Joseph , Doha, Qatar

Dear Lance, I fully endorse the views of Surhoor.... 100% in toto. And for my good friends ... Mandar Halbe and Lance Shenoy, what's wrong with what I have written. There are several recurring incident ONLY happening in India...not elsewhere...yet we do not learn out of these, and for your kind information, aren't we ALWAYS forfeiting our precious lives by sitting on a PERMANENT TICKING TIME BOMB ready for explosion, everytime? At whose cost....who cares !!

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sameer shabbir, UAE

Good work captian... keep it up.

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Mandar Halbe, Mumbai

It's sad to see when people criticize a good job done in difficult situation.

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surhoor, Mangalore/Dubai

Dear Lance ,ponder a while and you will know only Air India has these surprises happening more often .with an exception to this of course.

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lanceshenoy, mangalore/qatar

dear ron/joseph we still dont know the exact facts and yet you are passing judgements!!!!its easy to criticise but difficult to appreciate.

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Harish, Mangalore

This is a very common scenario in aviation, specially in rough weather. Every pilot is trained to do this. It is called TOGA or Take Off Go Around and is not at all an easy procedure. This maybe one of the very few times it has happened in Mangalore. This aborted landing is not restricted to Air India and could have happened to any airplane. Air India being in the news recently for different reasons shouldn't spark sarcastic comments on events like this.

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Edward, Mangalore/Dubai

It's not easy landing in Mangalore in bad weather. These pilots are quite good in their job.

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Ron, Mangalore/Abu dhabi

THE NOISE COULD BE THE CO PILOT HITTING THE AIR HOSTESS ON HER HEAD AS IN THE CASE RECENTLY WITH THE DUBAI_LUCKNOW FLIGHT. AIR INDIA IS GOOD FOR ANY SURPRISE AT ANY TIME !!!

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ashis das, Kolkata

Only AI and former IA commanders are able to land at any condition still they get bad tasted criticism by Indian irresponsible media.

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Joseph , Doha, Qatar

Daijiworld should have mentioned the Flight No. of this very special flight which touched down Bajpe and again went to the skies. Surely, must have been very special for the passengers alike. Great. Henceforth, we can expect all flights to ''touch and go'' at Bajpe on a double attempt basis, isn't it? Air India's name should enter into the Guinness Book of World Records for this 'amazing' feat during turbulent times it is facing through. Hardly heard of this type of an incident from other reputed global airlines, I suppose. After all, it happens only in India.

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