Last week’s IndiGo meltdown didn’t just leave passengers stranded or pile luggage six feet high at multiple airports— it exposed the uncomfortable truth that India’s aviation ecosystem is running on structural weaknesses everyone has ignored for years. IndiGo flight file image (HT_PRINT) Weather didn’t break the system; the system broke itself. Brittle regulation, understaffed operations, uneven oversight, and razor-thin buffers created a crisis that should never have happened in a nation aspiring to be Viksit Bharat. What unfolded was not an exception. It was the most visible example of a global pattern: modern aviation is a complex, tightly wound machine that collapses instantly when even one cog fails. We have designed a quiz around this fiasco that cuts through the noise. Each question reveals how similar pressure points — from legacy software to military-controlled airspace to hyper-optimised hubs — have triggered spectacular failures around the world, just as IndiGo’s fiasco revealed here at home. Let’s begin. 1. IndiGo’s collapse began with fog, but the real failure came from an operating philosophy that left no breathing …