Susi Air incident in Papua
I have deleted as requested.
However the info was and is already in the the public domain on various Indo news media outlets and social media.
Apologies if it caused offence for anyone.
Sal
However the info was and is already in the the public domain on various Indo news media outlets and social media.
Apologies if it caused offence for anyone.
Sal
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Yeah, just another arbitrary line on a map draw by colonial powers dividing people and causing this sort of mayhem for decades into the future.
Incidentally, langtaimbak, a Friend used to fly from Wewak into Jayapura on a regular basis. He told me that once he walked into a Newagency/bookshop in Jayapura and happened to notice a School Atlas put out by the Indonesian Government for sale to Schoolkids. He picked it up and flicked through it. PNG was called "East Irian.'
Australia was listed as being 'South Irian.'
Curiously, the next time he went there, the Atlas was no longer for sale.
The Indonesians weren’t the only ones who were liberal with the truth. I remember visiting what is now the Hillcrest school in Sentani and seeing that library books had been edited by blacking out references to things like dinosaurs, fossils and anything else which went against the teaching that God created the world in 6000BC.
Hopefully this will have a happy ending for the pilot, but it won’t for the OPM. The indigenous population of West Papua was abandoned by the UN during the “act of no choice”, and no governments outside of Indonesia care any more.
Hopefully this will have a happy ending for the pilot, but it won’t for the OPM. The indigenous population of West Papua was abandoned by the UN during the “act of no choice”, and no governments outside of Indonesia care any more.
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I hope the rebels understand that learning to fly takes more than a few days.............and destroying the aircraft adds a degree of complexity to their desire to become pilots.
"He is safe with our boys in the field, and everything is okay. He's staying with our friends and family at the ... headquarters. He has good skills, and we will look after him and he will train our soldiers for how to fly an aircraft."
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I certainly agree with that. But it would have to be a united action by the pilots (which is difficult to accomplish at Susi Air) because it is extremely difficult -- some would say impossible -- to get Susi herself to budge from a position based on risk.
Well it's been done before and it can be done again.
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Nope but Susi is in a weaker position to protest than she has been in the past.
A few. But at a basic level the current global pilot market means that replacements for "insubordinate" pilots are not as easy to find. There has always been an acceptance that it's a challenging place to fly and the fatality rate across operators bares that out. This risk of being taken hostage will now be greater across the region and this is a much harder risk to avoid in some ways than avoiding CFIT, LOC-I or an overrun etc.
There is another fairly significant issue that I'll refrain from mentioning here but it does put the ball in the pilots court.
There is another fairly significant issue that I'll refrain from mentioning here but it does put the ball in the pilots court.
Hopefully a negotiation position can be found that enables this particular situation to end.
I have an update from an International Security consultancy firm.
I won't post here considering the last flak I got.
PM with professional credintials and I will consider sharing .
Obvoulsy no journalists.
I won't post here considering the last flak I got.
PM with professional credintials and I will consider sharing .
Obvoulsy no journalists.