Vietnam Airlines Foreign Pilot Assaulted
Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam
September 24, 2009
Thursday evening, while riding his motorbike to his home in Ho Chi Mihn City, an American Pilot working for Vietnam Airlines, and his female companion, were run down by a car driven by a drunk driver and occupied by several other Vietnamese males.
Immediately following the accident, the American Pilot and his female friend were viciously attacked by the occupants of the vehicle. The attack caused serious injury to the American pilot and his female companion.
The injured pilot will have surgery immediately to repair broken bones and severe lacerations. The attack happen in front of Vietnam airlines head quarters while the airline security staffs watched and did not help.
The attackers were 3 male Vietnamese. 2 are Vietnam Airlines employees, including 1 Vietnamese pilot. When the attacker realized that they were attacking and beating a foreign pilot, they stopped and then offered assistance to him and his companion who they had already injured. sadly, by that time serious injury had already been done. A while later, the local police arrived.
As regular passenger on Vietnam Airlines, how can we feel safe flying on an airplane flown by such violent and irresponsible Vietnamese pilots? How can the forgien pilot feel working along side someone who would attack them at any moment?
As a woman, how can we feel safe on a Vietnam airlines flight knowing the pilots could be the same ones who visciously attacked the innocent female companion?