After some recent crashes, I also read somewhere that Government has issued a circular that only senior pilots should fly MIG Air Crafts.
Thereafter also, I read about crashes of MIG Aircrafts.
Are these MIG Aircrafts dying natural deaths due to metal fatigues ?
In 1948, a famous novelist Nevil Shute, wrote a book titled “NO HIGHWAY”
The book tried to explore a theory that metals used in Air Crafts have some kind of age. Just as human bones become brittle after some age, these metal also become fragile after certain flying hours and the air crafts are liable to crash even without negligence of pilot and even without any technical or visible fault!
It is said that in certain Court of Inquiry of an air crash, certain evidence some technical evidence came which, Nevil Shute tried to explain through this novel.
I just want you to read this novel at some book library or book store…
Or you can also read summary review of this book on http://www.nevilshute.org
Whenever, I have to fly by airplane, normally from Delhi to Ahmedabad only, I remember this novel as soon as I board on the flight, and then I look around to see if I am sitting in a very old aged plane!
A human tendency to fear!
Haresh Raichura
14/04/2012
Haresh A. Raichura 