You can have the most modern fleet in the World, but if you operate them like muppets then you will still end up with plenty of smoking holes in the ground.
That's a shining light to send to the Indonesian Press.
You might as well argue that vintage cars are unsafe on modern highways!
(the fact being, they were built for far more primitive roads,inferior fuel,tyres and lubricants....used on modern roads,they lead a cushy life as their continuing use affirms.)
Old, WELL MAINTAINED aircraft should be MORE inherently suited to these 3rd. world "airports" than modern stuff.
they're slower, more robust,lower-tech, less complex,therefore easier to
maintain. In short, they were built to operate in those environments.
Staff and administrative training is obviously lacking....I'm sur there's a way round Indonesian airspace, if that's what they want....but then they really would be up s**t creek, with half the world refusing to fly goods/pax to them.
the bloke's a cretin.