pushing cb in until it burned
This was a dangerous practice ; MAS runs on a lot of good luck. There were numerous episodes whereby flights would have come to disastrous grief, but by the grace of Lady Luck all turn out OK. It's a matter of time when luck runs out. With the upgrading and expansion of many of the tricky local airports, MAS theatre of operations is fairly forgiving and hardly challenging as international operations are generally to well equiped/well regulated airports.
The forementioned skipper must have been one of those " nearly lifetime F/Os " who were scrambling to be directly upgraded from B734 to B744. It was mentioned somewhere that even guys who had pranged their wing tips only to be rewarded by bypassing their " clean record " seniors for upgrade to the B744!!! Such is the sad state of affairs in MAS and MAPA HAD ACCEPTED AND BY EXTENSION, CONDONED this travesty of fair play.
Last edited by Raj Merlion; 4th Oct 2007 at 22:25.