Indonesia’s pilots threaten strike action

Sunday, 04 May, 2009 0

JAKARTA – Indonesia’s commercial pilots’ federation is considering strike action in retaliation for the recent criminal conviction and two-year sentence handed down to a pilot in connection with a fatal crash of a Garuda aircraft in Yogyakarta in March 2007.

Indonesian pilots, speaking through their association, are threatening to stop flying unless the appeal courts reject the conviction of the man in charge of the ill-fated Garuda flight, Captain Marwoto.

The Pilot’s Federation chairman, Monotar Napitupulu maintains that the police should not be involved in investigating aviation accidents and that safety equipment, such as flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders should not be introduced as evidence in criminal proceedings.

Source: Bali Update (www.balidiscovery.com)



 

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