hikoushi
6th Dec 2014, 09:07
Posted in the Far East forum but only a chorus of crickets and tree-frogs.
In China, is there a similar situation to Japan where the PIC of an airliner experiencing a turbulence related injury or other incident will face legal prosecution or jail time? Is there a case history of an international flight crew being thrown in a "gulag" due to some incident or another? What are the repercussions like there for things like blowing an altitude and losing separation, making weather deviations under a "pan-pan", etc.
Recently started flying there regularly, and surprisingly fly with quite a few crewmembers who are, for lack of a better term, stuck in the Cold War and freaked out by communism. Yes, I wonder why they bid the trip, too. In the meantime, would like to either allay their fears and show them that they the same chance of being thrown in prison in Japan (pilots JUNIOR to me), OR scare the hell out of them to get them to NOT bid trips to ZBAA (pilots SENIOR to me).
In China, is there a similar situation to Japan where the PIC of an airliner experiencing a turbulence related injury or other incident will face legal prosecution or jail time? Is there a case history of an international flight crew being thrown in a "gulag" due to some incident or another? What are the repercussions like there for things like blowing an altitude and losing separation, making weather deviations under a "pan-pan", etc.
Recently started flying there regularly, and surprisingly fly with quite a few crewmembers who are, for lack of a better term, stuck in the Cold War and freaked out by communism. Yes, I wonder why they bid the trip, too. In the meantime, would like to either allay their fears and show them that they the same chance of being thrown in prison in Japan (pilots JUNIOR to me), OR scare the hell out of them to get them to NOT bid trips to ZBAA (pilots SENIOR to me).