How many countries does that leave? And why only low level, why not also high level? Doesn't that rule out the US as well?
> - Has had airlines and planes for fewer than 5 decades
Also sounds arbitrary.
low level officials taking bribes means you can do stuff like never wear a seatbelt, just pay the cop $20 USD if you get pulled over. get pulled up for smoking indoors? $20 USD. run over an illegal immigrant and kill them? USD 1000 to have their records completely erased. Sim card? $5 USD cash. rape? what? the police here hung up on my friend on a 911 call because they spoke english and not the 'national language' (police do speak english here).on a different note, it is legal to rape your wife here
low level corruption causes immense problems and injustices in society. here, everyone drink drives. driving a car while extremely drunk here is default behaviour.
ye high level official bribery will cause probelms, but the low level stuff is what completely craters the system and causes the catastrophic failures in complex engineering systems.
i am in the country of mh370
the plane acting funny on landing in jakarta, sort of jumping around, weird turbulence
when it land, he look outside and see that one of the major aileron has fuselage completely missing and had been replace with electrical tape
the plane was flying funny because one of the aileron was replaced with electrical tape from dollar store by international airline technician
importantly, if this plane crash, nobody will ever admit this, cctv record deleted, etc. they will just blame beooing
This is wild speculation, based on second-hand information from your friend, who, given that they referred to it as electrical tape when anyone in the industry would know it's called speed tape and has no similarities with electrical tape, probably doesn't actually know which part of the aircraft is the aileron.
Speed tape on the wing is quite common anywhere in the world on any carrier, and is safe if done properly.
Lion Air and Indonesian aviation has a lot of problems in general, but I doubt this issue was genuinely a safety issue. Your friend probably felt some turbulence on landing.
Sorry, but that doesn't mean anything.
I hate that this thread descended into chauvinism and generalized cultural value judgments. The problem of excessive deference to authority plagues all cultures. By not being obsessed about saving face for our own society and acknowledging our own flaws, we make it easier for all of us to learn together.