Racist and patently ill-informed comment from Australian 'expert' reported on New Straits Times
""Neil Hansford said that either the Indonesian captain or French first officer had plotted a “dangerous flight plan"
“Whether they read the meteorology right they were given in Surubaya...And how well did they communicate? One whose basic language is Bahasa and the other guy’s basic language is French.”
Don't allow your political correctness to rule out inter language problems in the heat of a dire distress situation.