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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, flower wrote:
track record, particularly with MIGs (not only in Goa, but in rest of the country even quite recently), is a bit scary.
I guess you mean the vertical-takeoff Sea Harriers, bought from Britain and which have been crashing with amazing regularity (not necessarily over the Vasco area though).
At one stage, I had been following the number of Sea Harrier crashes, which were mostly tucked away in the news as tiny single-columns or two-column items (not mentioning the earlier crashes, so thus not placing the issue in context.
In all, over half-a-dozen of the these planes crashed; going away from the Dabolim airport issue alone, it's strange that nobody thought of investigating the cause for such repeated mishaps. In each incident, a court of inquiry was announced. But this too seems to have been soon forgotten; public memory is short. So no explanations seem to have been demanded as part of the public debate, and none were obviously offered. FN
