Originally Posted by
Bill Bader
I'm sorry, folks, we do have bigots and bad spellers (not to mention forum trolls) here in Canada. My very sincere apologies to those Indonesians whom he insulted.
You are right I should say "sorry" to all Indonesians. I am indeed sorry that the well known corruption and incompetence at all levels of your countries civil regulatory agencies makes a flight in Indonesian airspace and especially aboard and Indonesian registered airliner, many more times dangerous than in North America.
I am also sorry that despite impressive engineering and manufacturing capabilities, and overall high pilot skill levels; Russian airline operations can not seem to shake the wild west cowboy culture of flight operations that has resulted in so many recent incidents and accidents.
Sometimes the truth is hurtful to say but until both jurisdictions face up to their systemic problems, more people will die in totally preventable accidents.....