KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia has removed the latest issue of Travel 3Sixty magazine from all of its flights immediately due to an offensive line in a monthly column that unintentionally reflected the missing flight MH370.
AirAsia executive chairman and publisher of Travel 3Sixty magazine, Datuk Kamarudin Meranun said the writer, Capt Lim Khoy Hing, a retired pilot who had worked with AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines and had written books on the aviation industry, prepared all of his articles months in advance before the magazine went to print.
“Unintentionally and regrettably, the current issue carries an article that discusses about GPS and radar, which was printed a month before its issue date,” he said in a statement yesterday.
While conveying his apologies, Kamarudin said the magazine had now addressed the issue and improved its editorial approval process to ensure the such a slip would not happen in future.
He said disciplinary action would be taken on the editorial team as well.
“This is a truly difficult time for the nation and words cannot describe how I personally feel of this incident. It really saddens me that this article was released at such an inopportune moment,” he said.
The page with the line, “Rest assured that your captain is well prepared to ensure your plane will never get lost. Have a safe flight”, was photographed by a passenger and posted on the microblogging site. — Bernama