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The Cockpit of the mind

Most of us might have boarded a flight. The place from where the pilot operates the aircraft is called as the Cockpit. Sitting in the cockpit the pilot can operate and control every part of the plane. If the pilot loses the control of the cockpit the plane will crash. The small cockpit is the most crucial area of the huge aircraft. There were various methods by which the flights were hijacked or crashed in the past due to the entry of unwanted people into the cockpit. If this happens the flying capability of the pilot cannot save the plane. Type 1 Hijack :  The hijacker can comfortably access the unlocked cockpit as in 9/11 attacks.  This is due unlocked cockpit of the flights. After 9/11 The cockpit doors were made very strong and explosion proof. Pilots started keeping the cockpit door locked during the entire flight time. Even then there were instances where the hijackers entered the cockpit by making the pilot open the cockpit door. Type 2 Hijack  happens by bl...

Pandemics and World wars: Do they have any thing in common?

      In 2019-2020, Corona Virus had spread involving majority of the countries of the world causing large amounts morbidity, death, suffering and financial breakdown in the affected countries. •       This calamity was compared with the second world war in terms of its massive scale of human life and resources destruction. There were a lot of similarities between the two in terms of their spread and the inability of world to contain the cause of the suffering.   •   Between 1939 to 1945, The second world war shook the world causing millions of deaths and much more people suffered from it directly or indirectly. •       Adolf Hitler, A leader of Germany was instrumental in triggering the war. He was a powerful leader with conviction of Anti-Semitism (Racial discrimination), greed for an absolute power. He was an adamant and powerful ruler who never questioned himself nor ...