Ahmedabad Plane Crash: Why Are the Airport and Hospital Side by Side?
It is the most critical moment for the plane, when it is taking off. Even after that, if we are constructing something as sensitive as a hospital right next to the airport — then only God can help. This can only be found in India — where there's an airport, and right next to it are buildings, and we accept it. Until we understand that living with dignity is more important, we will keep finding it acceptable to sell off our safety and self-respect.
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Questioner: Sir, where the accident happened, there is a hospital next to the airport. Why was it there? Is that allowed? Or if there wasn't a hospital, then?
Acharya Prashant: That's a good question. But we don't ask such fundamental questions, do we? We will discuss a lot of other things. Why did the dual engine failure happen? We will talk about conspiracy theory. But a very small and a very direct question that we will not ask is: why is there a hospital next to the airport?
In any country in the world, even in India too, it is not even allowed to have a hospital starting right at the boundary wall of the airport. The risk to the hospital of being next to the airport — it's a very obvious thing, right?
Even normally, if there is a hospital, there is a sign that says: “Hospital! Do Not Honk, please do not make noise here, there are patients.”
