YOURSAY | ‘Melbourne is 722km south-west of Sydney, KL is 6,611km north-west.’

Navigation blunder sees AirAsia plane landing in Melbourne instead of KL

Lord Acton: This must be the funniest thing I've read all day. But seriously though, thank God it managed to land safely.

This should not be happening at all, the pilot and crew must be grounded and someone needs to resign at AirAsia.

Annonymous: Melbourne is 722km south-west of Sydney, Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km north-west - a vast difference.

It's not like a blunder landing in Penang airport instead of Kuala Lumpur. This is an unforgivable error putting 300 passengers lives at risk.

In such a modern era, advanced technology and sophisticated aircraft and computer systems, including the commercial and military radar tracking and checking systems, the error should have been noted and promptly rectified, right?

Anti-Corruption: Basically, it boils down to adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs) and professionalism. I thought most aircraft use GPS nowadays and alignment is automatically done at the gate through GPS.

A final position update is done at take off roll. Is AirAsia using an outdated system or is it crew negligence due to time management pressure because of short turnaround time and lackadaisical attitude?

Jaycee: This incident, like that of the disappearance of MH370, stems from decades of an allegedly corrupted government.

This has resulted in a society where non-conformance is tolerated, where people take shortcuts or turn the other way when they see things are not right.

One example is the 1MDB fiasco; where the person at the helm, who allegedly stole money from the public, is not only left untouched; but continues to have the majority support of the ministers.

The Analyser: Jaycee, are you sure that the reason the government is negligent is not because the people are negligent? After all, the government is made up of Malaysians.

Not Convinced: It is good to know that AirAsia has “equipped all of its aircraft with upgraded flight management systems since the incident”.

The lesson to learn from this episode is – don’t ignore warning signals.

Roar For Truth: This is failure on the part of the pilot, co-pilot and Australian air traffic controllers. Human error of all three parties involved and they need further training to prevent a recurrence.

Report: MH370 pilot texted lady friend two days before tragedy

ANA: Our focus should be on improvement. Did MAS, Air Traffic Control, the Transport Ministry, Intelligence, the Air Force, etc, excel in how they responded?

I expect we fell far short in many areas. Let's put our efforts there and refrain from pure speculation.

Chances are we will never know the truth, at least not in this world. May those that departed and their families find peace.

Wira: The pilot of Flight MH370 is dead. The loved ones of the other 238 who were on board are living. They require a closure that no official can give. Don't ask them to shut up.

FellowMalaysian: There is just too much unwanted speculation right now and this gives fodder to the foreign press and mills to churn unsolicited mud slings against MAS, Malaysian air traffic and surveillance personnel and Captain Zaharie in particular.

The Transport Ministry ought to show more accountability and feelings towards the victims' families and resume talk-sessions with them before deciding to call off the search.

Lord Acton: People are gone, families are still in trauma or trying to recover. Yes, Fatima Pardi, you should tell all instead of withholding information.

Also, madam, if you didn't want to hurt the feelings of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's family, you should not have spoken to the media.

Odin Tajué: Why has the lady been described as ‘married’, when she seems either a widow or a divorcee? Is it an attempt to cast aspersions on her and (the late?) Captain Zaharie to divert attention away from the sleeping radar operators?

Or is it a case of the (Australian) reporters concerned being ignorant of the definitions of the three nouns ‘married’, ‘widow’ and ‘divorcee’?

If both were divorced at the material time, then their relationship was their private affair. If the lady was a widow and the gentleman was a divorcee, their relationship was also their private affair.

Whether they texted or seed each other was their business, for heaven’s sake. Their relationship would be of import only if it has led to the disappearance of the flight. Has it? If it has not, then leave it well alone.

Ahmet Al Tarabuls**t: What's wrong with the pilot texting his lady friend two days before the tragedy? There is more to it than what's being dished out to us public.

Get the Americans and the Chinese to the table and get the waiter, too (and that is Malaysia) and we can get to the bottom of it.

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