Well same things happened in Indonesia, people send mails to newspapers just to complain pilots talking to flight attendant in flight. He think that the pilot should concentrate on flying the plane, as it is endangering as talking to others while driving a car. So you can tell how stupid that assumption is. A plane that RTA because of "unusual noise" (which is just a loose hinge, CPA and other airlines often just take off ignoring it) gets a very bloody report news.
A friend of mine who is an Indonesian airline pilot that graduated from an Aussie flying school, told me that in Australia, people are more outrageous about aviation stuff... things are silly, such as if the pilots use speedbrakes, and airframe shakes (normally), passengers will complain as it is "dangerous" stuff in newspapers.
Talk about Garuda? I have "incident" on my flight from Denpasar last 4th August, the APU won't start so the pilot decided not to shut down one of the engines to supply power for the AC and electricity. It delayed us for about 30 minutes.
Well, everyone in aviation-savvy world knows that without APU the aircraft can still go, but i think they (the press) missed this one.
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