TIME flies, 2,555 days have gone by. Today, March 8, marks the seventh anniversary of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370’s disappearance. It was supposed .
Aviation safety intact despite pandemic 23 Feb 2021 / 21:44 H.
THE public should not assume that due to limited flying as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, flight safety is being eroded and consequently air travel might be unsafe now.
Having said that, pilots, without doubt, are creatures of habit who must perform regularly to maintain proficiency and efficiency.
And being human, they are not infallible to making mistakes. Indeed pilots do make mistakes or forget to do certain things at certain times, all the time.
With so many things to do and to remember, it is normal for mistakes to happen. However, it is the degree or level of mistakes that matter.
Airlines don’t compromise on flight safety 17 Jan 2021 / 20:27 H. Indonesian police officers and Indonesian soldiers carry debris of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed to the sea, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Jan 10. – Reuterspix
The recent crash of Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 a few minutes after departure from Jakarta bound for Pontianak, yet again puts the spotlight on flight safety.
While the accident by convention will be investigated by Indonesian authorities, we shall not speculate into the cause.
In basic terms, aircraft accidents can be due to four major factors:
> The aircraft – engine fire, system failure etc;
Challenges for Malaysia Airlines 13 Jan 2021 / 18:44 H.
The airline business is not easy to run and it is hard to make it profitable. There are a lot of challenges to encounter along the way, but it is necessary to have them. Otherwise, how do we cross the seas, oceans and mountains?
In its early days, during the time of Tan Sri Saw Huat Lye, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Rahman and Datuk Kamarudin Ahmad leading Malaysia Airlines (MAS), the business environment was different.
There was virtually no competition and the fuel back then was still affordable.
Some entrepreneurs then came up with the idea of making air travel cheap, to make flying affordable to the masses. It was then that low-cost carriers, airlines with no frills were born.