Does it ring a bell when I say Urmila and Yashoo? How about Poonam Pandey, Sunny Leone, Nithyananda…
Please read the snippet below:
The ATR 9760 flight lost one of the nose wheels during takeoff from Silchar airport, 235 km from Guwahati on Monday. The technical snag developed moments before the plane became airborne from Khumbirgram Airport in Silchar at 9 am. After the plane gained altitude, its automated alarm cautioned passengers to be prepared for any eventuality. Captain Urmila, however, flew the plane to Guwahati which has better landing facilities and the aircraft landed under emergency conditions at the Lokopriyo Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. The plane hovered over Guwahati airport for some time to burn the fuel in the tank to reduce the chances of it catching fire during landing under emergency conditions. Even as fear and anxiety gripped the 48 people onboard, the pilot Captain Urmila Yadav and co-pilot Yashu kept their cool and took a couple of crucial decisions that prevented any loss of life.First, they flew the plane to Guwahati, which has better landing facilities, and the aircraft landed under emergency conditions at Lokopriyo Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport. Second, the team kept the plane hovering over the Guwahati skies for more than two hours to exhaust excess fuel and ensure that it did not burst into flames in the event of a crash-landing.
According to me this act of “Courage and grit” of two women pilots should have made headlines in the newspaper but sad part is that it landed in a small corner of 5th or 6th page. If the same flight had crashed snuffing away the human lives on board. TV 9 would have played the video throughout the day and the newspaper would be full of cries of the relatives and friends of deceased.
“What we ask is What we get”, as audience we are giving in for a new “ism” called sensationalism and media is feeding us the same. Why not? When visual media’s TRP ratings go up, newspaper distribution increases more and more disasters, murder, dacoity, child abuse, infidelity… make it to the headlines. We are the folks who are helping to glorify the crime.
Lets take a step back and start appreciating good things in life so that encouraging makes it to the top. Media slowly will start feeding good news during prime time and newspaper first 3 pages will be void of anything that glorifies crime. What do you think?
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