AirAsia X suspends pilot over Facebook posting on MH370
A pilot with AirAsia X has been suspended for breaching company policies after he posted a Facebook message on the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, reported ABN News.
Its group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes confirmed the suspension, via Twitter, and said that the first officer was under investigation for breaking company policies.
AirAsia X chief executive officer Azran Rani Osman said the first officer had contravened a “specific directive” not to publicly comment on the ongoing search, according to the ABN News report.
“(There is a) specific directive to our crew on public comments on MH370. (There is a) duty of care not to be hurtful,” he wrote in response to Fernandes’s tweet.
The pilot had denied that flight MH370 had crashed and suggested that Putrajaya was hiding information pertaining to the incident.
He has since disabled his Facebook account.
On Monday night, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had said that based on calculations using satellite data, flight MH370 had “ended” in the Indian Ocean.
Malaysia Airlines chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said that it was concluded that there were no survivors as the area was remote without any land mass nearby and has one of the roughest seas in the world. – March 26, 2014.
