Hi Barney...that scumbag did not INHERIT any royal title. He was given one by the sultan of his home state for being a great brown noser, the same sultan who now demolish whatever semblance of democracy they have in his state of perak.
Coming back to the ill fated MH 653 flight, it was the first major air disaster in Malaysia and I would have thought that the lessons learnt might have been passed on to newer generations in a more forthcoming manner. Years later, I believe an Ethiopian B767 was similarly hijacked and ended in a ditching disaster when the hijackers bludgeoned the crew as they attempted a landing by the beach somewhere in the Comoros. This disaster was highlighted in some documentary by Discovery or National Geographic.