Very lucky for the F/O to have had that manual visual approach! During those early B744 days, the F/Os hardly had any actual flying! There were so many new guys on line training that an F/O would be lucky to get a landing in 3 months or so.
Some had to get to the sim to maintain T/O & Ldg currency. HNL flights were so popular that mostly Hassan's and Khairy's blue eye boys got them often; for the rest, may be once a year.
MAS will survive but it will have to return to a leaner operation in its niche market. The kaka's exhortation to fly to the 6 continents to further his grandiose agenda was a big disaster that bedevil the national carrier ever since.
