The father of the deceased Air India pilot is not simply mourning. He is fighting. In New Delhi, he claims his son was scapegoated for a system failure.
British aviation authorities are now investigating. This is not a tragic footnote. It is a threat vector.
If the narrative shifts blame to a dead captain while ignoring deeper systemic vulnerabilities, we risk normalising a lethal gap in our air defence architecture. The UK probes must scrutinise cockpit culture, training metrics under stress, and data link protocols. Any failure to do so is a strategic error that hostile state actors will exploit.
