Racism? Bigotry?
There are those who see racism and bigotry everywhere.
I brought up the DC-10 topic because I found it strange at the very least that 34 years after the fact I could find no reference to it having occurred.
I also mentioned the KLM pilot along with every other major feature of the incident that I could recall.
I mentioned it as a fact (or what I believe to be a fact, aging memory aside) that was relevant to the event.
At the time GA had very little exposure to wide-bodies and I believe that it was common to have Dutch pilots flying on secondment to GA.
I'm sorry if that fits your very broad measure of bigotry. It does not fit mine.
As for Indonesia's aviation safety record, it speaks for itself.
I know. I live here.
Your comments on that are well founded.
But that does not mean that any one event in Indonesia is any more or less damning than a similar event in any other country.
I average about 40 domestic flights per year. We don't get a lot of choice to use other than domestic carriers.
Oh yeah, there is the occasional Air Asia flight available.
The DC-10 topic was moved over here because it was definitely off-topic for the Montreal thread.
It has progressed to the point where it is probably off-topic here too.