The previous poster could have worded their comment much better, but shoddy maintenance, dodgy fuel etc absolutely are a real issue in developing countries.

Air India has a reasonable safety record, but in most all other aspects they're widely recognized as being a shambles.

I think he's implying that countries near the equator are underdeveloped and thus the crash could have been caused by human factors (such as negligence)

As opposed to the predictable accidents of the Amazon and Guyanan basins?

Apart from the casual racism of lumping together areas of three continents in your generalisation, it was lazy racism as at 23 degrees North, Ahmedabad is close in latitude to Florida and far outside the 5-10 degree equitorial zone.

Latin America doesn't have as much high end aviation going on to fall out of the sky and the factions that are competing with the government for control in the new world are less inclined to slip explodey things onto flyey things than the ones in the old world.

I'm flattered you think I'm racist. I assure you, I hate people far more based on the contents of their mind than the color of their skin.

> Latin America doesn't have as much high end aviation

What are you talking about?

> I assure you, I hate people far more based on the contents of their mind than the color of their skin.

You're fooling yourself here. Your absurd (and factually incorrect) assumptions about whole regions is textbook racism.

>What are you talking about?

What are you talking about?

Like FFS, seriously.

Look at the population numbers. Look at the number of arrivals and departures of the kind of large "international newsworthy when they crash" aircraft. There is simply less chance one falls out of the sky in LatAm because there's many fewer of them in the sky to begin with.

>You're fooling yourself here. Your absurd (and factually incorrect) assumptions about whole regions is textbook racism.

You are projecting your own judgements into my words. These nations are poorer and a lot of baggage comes with that. None of which has anything to do with race.

> You are projecting your own judgements into my words.

No, I'm reading your words as you write them.

Deciding that Ahmedabad is "right on the edge" of the "the equatorial old world" is racist unto itself. It shows staggering geographic and cultural ignorance.

Some self-reflection is in order, because if you speak like this in real life, people may not call you out directly but everyone will think less of you.

Have you been to Florida?

>Does gravity act differently in the “equatorial old world”?

Lol, this guy.

No, @rafram, as far as we know, gravity is a force that is present in all the universe.

Gravity?

>gravity

I’m going to assume this comment is sarcasm.

Anyone with a reasonable amount of exposure to physics in the region has been witness to innumerable Bollywood documentaries that illustrate the many gravitational anomalies present in the vicinity of the subcontinent.

Probably another example of slipshod Boeing engineering failing to anticipate the gravitational and mass related endemic conditions. They should have done more testing.