Originally Posted by
ferry pilot
The pilot has an excellent personal and professional reputation, but was involved in politics that may have placed him in conflict with his employer.
For as many problems as Malaysia has at the government level it is not a totalitarian or fascist state. It is extremely unlikely the captain is the only pilot on the MH roster who supports the "opposition." I'd also imagine there's plenty of time flying long haul for politics as a subject to be discussed and for that I'd speculate it's quite unlikely other pilots didn't know his leanings (just as he may have known theirs).
These discussions of who he supported, politically, need to stop. They show a real ignorance of politics in Malaysia and unnecessarily disparage a most likely dead pilot who's life was invested in flying airplanes.