Is MAS learning from past tragedies on safety priority?

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Is MAS learning from past tragedies on safety priority?

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27, 2023: Let not the 239 crew and passengers who “perished” in the March 8, 2014 MH370 disappearance be forgotten.

Till today, the authorities have yet to determine the cause of the MAS jet's disappearance, why it disappeared and any negligence on the part of aviation men and officials.

And while Beijing has commenced court proceedings on compensation hearing for Chinese MH370 victims, MAS and Malaysian governments the past decades have remained mum, hoping for all to be forgotten over time.

MAS’ flight services have been blemished not only by this tragedy, but also another air crash - MH17.

MH17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-controlled forces on July, 17, 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed.

MAS still has not admitted its stupidity of saving cost, risking the lives of passengers to fly over a war zone when other international airlines had decided to spend more for safety.

So much to MAS’ constant claims that safety is its top priority.

View the above video clip. A MAS flight was delayed just because Muslim extremists decided to start their prayers on board, thus preventing take-off.

Is that acceptable? Is MAS and civil aviation authorities taking the matter lightly? What happens if every passenger of different creed and religion start doing the same?

Nothing short of chaos for flight schedules, to say the least.

No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the court hearings in Beijing:

Beijing court to begin compensation hearings for Chinese MH370 victims

The jet vanished on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

AFP - 27 Nov 2023, 10:40am

Hardly any trace of the plane was found in a 120,000sq km Indian Ocean search zone and the operation was suspended in January 2017. (AFP pic)

BEIJING: A Beijing court was on Monday due to begin compensation hearings for the families of Chinese victims who died on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared nearly 10 years ago.

The jet vanished on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people – mostly from China – en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Hardly any trace of the plane was found in a 120,000sq km Indian Ocean search zone and the Australian-led operation, the largest in aviation history, was suspended in January 2017.

Some pieces of debris have been picked up across the Indian Ocean.

Jiang Hui, whose mother was on flight MH370, wrote on social media this month that the court hearings would begin Monday at Beijing’s People’s Court in Chaoyang district and continue until mid-December.

Beijing’s state-run China Daily has also reported the hearings, citing Jiang. The hearing was not listed on the court’s public website.

Families of the victims, as well as media, gathered outside the court on Monday morning, AFP reporters saw.

A US exploration firm launched a private hunt for MH370 in 2018, but it ended after several months of scouring the seabed without success.

The disappearance of the plane has long been the subject of a host of theories – ranging from the credible to the outlandish – including that veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had gone rogue.

In 2016, Malaysian officials revealed the pilot had plotted a path over the Indian Ocean on a home flight simulator but stressed this did not prove that he deliberately crashed the plane.

A final report into the tragedy released in 2018 pointed to failings by air traffic control and said the course of the plane was changed manually.

However, they failed to come up with any firm conclusions, leaving relatives angry and disappointed.