Aviation Industry News
Foreign columnist pokes fun at RP aviation after EU ban
Monday, 05, April 2010
Barely had it recovered from the sting of a ban imposed by European Union ban when Philippine aviation got another whammy, this time from an Asian magazine’s humor columnist.The latest blow came from a humor article by Nury Vittachi, which came out on the April edition of Reader’s Digest. The implied that Philippine aviation officials are not serious in their job.According to Wikipedia, Vittachi is a Ceylonese journalist and author based in Hong Kong. His columns are published daily, weekly in a variety of newspapers in Asia as well as on his Web site.
He is best known for the comedy-crime novel series The Feng Shui Detective, which published in many languages around the world.In his Reader’s Digest article titled “I’d rather be chained," Vittachi told of an “enterprising captain" aboard an early morning flight over the Philippines who randomly pressed an unmarked button on the flight deck.When security forces ordered the pilot to dump 50,000 kilos of fuel and land at a remote airstrip, everything was supposedly forgiven when the pilot explained there was no hijacking.
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