In aftermath of air crash, public anger focused on public targets

Public apologies from both Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran and Air India CEO Campbell Wilson have fallen on deaf ears

A phrase in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” sums up the position Tata Sons chairman Natrajan Chandrasekaran and Air India CEO Campbell Wilson find themselves in as the initial shock of the Air India crash dies down. An outpouring of public grief and anger in the absence of clarity on what led to the crash and a clear culprit to vilify has fairly or unfairly been directed at those in the eye of the

The wreckage of the aircraft being lifted by a crane from the roof of BJ Medical College mess building. (HT Photo)