"TAIPEI: Taiwan's TransAsia Airways said Friday all its 71 ATR pilots will have to take a flight skills test following its second deadly accident in seven months. "
I see I have had a comment pulled by the Moderators, and would like to explain why I wrote what I did.
My response to the above news was "They are Chinese"
I suspect this was taken to be racist, It was not - I have worked for a Chinese State owned Enterprise for the past 18 years and my comment was a comment on the management style of Chinese businesses. I meant that this typical response should not be taken as an indication that there is anything generically wrong with this airline's flight deck staff. It is just the default reaction of management in a Chinese company - a quick prescriptive "solution" imposed "top down".
"Long divided, the Empire must unite. Long united, the Empire must divide. So it has ever been" - Opening sentences of the San Guo,三国志 a classic novel written in the 14th century...