India, June 12 -- The Air India 171 disaster has become one of India's worst Aviation tragedies, and Air India's first wide body crash since the Kanishka bombing of Air India 182 back in June of 1985.

Time has stood still in those 40 years as the world has passed us by, the dreadful memories of that Boeing 747 strewn over the Atlantic Ocean off Ireland still jar the mind, when this B-787 turned into a fireball at Ahmedabad and brought us crashing down to earth to reality.

That afternoon, I got a call from a friend in engineering, and watched the forwarded video in horror, literally within minutes, TV channels were scrambling to verify facts. It was Indian aviation's worst nightmare, a wide body tragedy that likely had killed all on boar...