What must be going through an individual’s mind when he/she comes to terms with fact that the huge Airbus they are traveling will soon plunge into the Atlantic, an ocean which covers one fifth of earth’s surface and stretches upto 41.1 million square miles and they are going to be history in next few seconds.

All their life long plannings, job, home, meetings, loved ones: gone. How much helpless a mother must have been holding her baby in her hand but can’t do anything to save the little one who barely has learn to walk? What terrible moments those must have been with a big airbus submerging into a gigantic ocean carrying 228 people of different with thunderstorms and hailstorms adding to the misery. Whatever sins a person may have done, no one deserves such a tragic end. Just give it a thought.

Put yourself for a split second in their place and you will feel that chill. It’s not that tragedy of such large scale has occurred for the very first time but the fact remains that still in spite of best of technologies, there have been technical lapses which has cost human life. In this post at least we won’t go into the details as to reasons that might have led to the crash.

Let’s come together to remember and pay our tributes to those 228 people who lost their lives in this ‘air catastrophe’. May their soul rest in peace.

Salil Dhawan