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Malaysian Airlines MH 370 Controversy: AirAsia Boast Its Pilots Won't Lose a Plane, Sparked Outrage

7 Apr 2014 00:31:35

theepochtimes.com

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia"” Southeast Asia's top budget carrier AirAsia on Saturday withdrew its latest inflight magazine and apologized for an offending article boasting that its well-trained pilots would never lose a plane.


AirAsia Executive Chairman Kamarudin Meranun expressed "œdeep regret and remorse," saying the latest issue of "œtravel 3Sixty" magazine was printed before the Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people disappeared March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.


Kamarudin said the article was a monthly aviation column prepared well in advance by a retired pilot, who had worked for both AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines.


Read full story: theepochtimes.com

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