Thursday, June 19, 2025

Preventing Air disasters through AI

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Perhaps, the best possible homage to the victims of the ill-fated Flight AI 171, would be to implement 'Total Quality Management', in all aspects related to both civil and military aviation.

Let's not forget the tragic chopper crash in December 2021, which claimed the lives of our then CDS General Bipin Rawat and other top ranking Defense officers. Poor visibility and bad weather could have been among main causes in this case, but then there could have been some mechanism to alert the pilots, to either abort the flight and return, or change the route to ensure safety for all.

Yes, a thorough investigation of the reasons behind the AI 171 tragedy is being carried out, and hopefully the report would be made public in due course. But then, such investigations have been carried out in the case of all air disasters, in both civil and military aviation, since past so may years.

Perhaps, both the Defense Ministry and DGCA should consider developing an AI based system with Agentic AI capabilities, in which all such inquiry reports are inputted. Besides, any defect faced by ground engineers during maintenance of the aircrafts, which may come in way of ensuring the key objective 'Total Quality Management', and problems faced by the pilots during the course of their flights, which hopefully may not lead to accidents, should also be inputted.

The Agentic AI system should be able to collate such inputs, and share the same along with it's suggestions, regarding the steps required to ensure smooth 'Total Quality Management', as well as the kind of assistance needed by the pilots to handle any emergency situation mid-air, to avoid such disasters.

The system should further be trained to share such outputs with the approved authorities in both Civil and Military aviation for the necessary immediate action, and perhaps, also share the same with the manufacturers of such aircrafts/jets, and for eliciting their support if required, in the 'Total Quality Management' of such flying machines.

Needless to add, such an AI system would need to be constantly updated, even if slightest issue is found regarding the aircrafts/jets, as well as feedbacks from the pilots post their flying experiences.

Above all, the pilots across the spectrum, need to be regularly exposed to refresher training, based on outputs of such a system.

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