Monday, March 04, 2019

Brexit - landing during the storm





I came across a clip of BA aeroplane trying to land at Heathrow unsuccessfully. The pilot decides to quit the landing attempt and ascends again to avoid catastrophe. The news story is covered here.

This reminded me of the situation we in the UK currently going through in relation to Brexit where the pilot is determined to land irrespective of passenger safety.

The imaginary story goes like this - 

Once the plane was sailing at 10000 feet and making good progress. It's pilot David was experienced and passengers felt confident in his ability to fly the plane.

One of the passengers came up with an idea that the plane should take a stop at the city of Atlantis which no one ever visited before. It was not on agenda, but the champion managed to pursued the pilot to have a vote on the stopover. Based on the fake articulation of the champion, somehow it was decided to land in Atlantis by a tiny majority.

The pilot felt that it is a stupid idea and decided to quit & handover to assistant pilot instead. The assistant pilot Teresa was promoted to the pilot role. She is not as experienced as David and passengers do not have confidence in her ability.

But she felt confident that she can pilot the plane and can successfully land in the unknown city of Atlantis. As the plane entered the airspace, the weather condition does not look favourable. The city looks into ruins and the landing strip is not safe for landing either. The chances of plane landing without damage are slim.

Now passengers who were in favour of landing are having a double mind. The champion managed to jump with the parachute and took another private jet to another destination.

The Pilot is still adamant that it was the mandate of the passengers to land in Atlantis by hook or crook. She is far removed from the reality that the passengers can see that the promises were fake and the crash landing can cost them their lives.

Instead of looking into the safety of all passengers, she is looking at the whole episode as a challenge to her capability. Instead of quitting the landing attempt, she is determined to land. She is buying the time until its too late to pull out then all passengers will have no choice but to embrace the crash landing.

More to follow later as the story develops...



1 comment:

chandrakant said...

Nice inatiative