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Comment by julienfr112 | Hacker News Reader

There is no commercial jet build in India, and if there where, no one from India would agree to board them.

Correct. But then again, you don't know the power of the government. Media is paid for and controlled by them to a much wider and expansive degree that they can essentially spin any feel good patriotic story to drum up support.

India is HUGE and as they say "ya Sab chalta hai" or in english "everything works here".

If some airline bought 50 year old planes and started flying them, people will use it because it would be cheaper.

No matter media control, a high incidence of accidents will be noticed because each plane falling from the skies contains hundreds of people, which is very visible and impactful. Also, planes are still expensive equipment.

The crucial difference from train jumping off the rails its that there can in theory be survivors. Also, the train won't start to burn out and it's usually possible to salvage a lot of the equipment.

Hold up, the government controls the media in India? So much for being the "largest democracy".

He isn't saying "government owned", he's saying that through connections, large parts of the media is probably at least influenced by the government.

And before pointing any fingers, remember NYT cheering for the Iraq War...

Didn’t India literally turn off the internet for an entire region because of some protests?

Yep. My name thousands of times + more recently Manipur

Are corruption and engineering skills in Brazil that different to India? Nobody bats an eye-lid about flying on Embraer jets

Brazil exists under the ever-watchful eyes of the United Fruit Company.

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