Who is to be blamed for air crash in India? a big question....

I still remember my first air journey; I was sitting with my fingers crossed for two hours in midair until my flight landed. But after the recent Mangalore air crash that killed 160 people, something tells me that rather than the journey itself, it’s the landing and takeoff that are more dangerous on Indian airports.

History of air accidents in India is replete with instances of the blame game. Here’s the chronology of Indian air accidents:-

1. 1988 – October 19: Indian Airlines flight from Mumbai crashes in heavy fog at Ahmedabad, killing 124 out of 129 passengers.
2. 1990 – February 14: Flight from Mumbai crashes while landing at Bangalore airport, killing 92 out of 146 passengers.
3. 1991 – August 16: Pilot error blamed after a flight crashes on descent at Imphal in remote areas of Manipur, killing 69 people.
4. 1993 – April 26: Indian Airlines flight stopping en route from Delhi to Mumbai crashes on take-off at Aurangabad airport in Maharashtra, killing 55 of 118 passengers.
5. 2000 – July 17: Alliance Air flight crashes at Patna airport, killing 60 passengers.
6. 2009 – October: A Kingfisher plane was about to take off when an Air India flight from Nagpur landed on the same runway.
7. 2010 – April 20: A Kingfisher flight in Mumbai aborted take-off to make sure that a GoAir flight, which had landed, was off the runway.
8. 2010 – May 22: About 160 people were killed when an Air India Express flight overshot the runway at Mangalore airport and bursts into flames.
9. 2010 May 27: A Jet Airways flight aborted landing because an Indigo flight was blocking the runway.

Who is to be blamed here? The drunken pilots, outdated aircrafts, old airports, or the incumbent ground staff?