oh ! my god ! May the Lord save their souls ! but I don't understand why the lao air line didn't cancel its flight despite the threatening of Nari typhoon accosting central vietnam cost on tuesday early morning or the pilots didn't took the lao weather forecasting very seriously ????
Among the victims are the young Lao Australian famility: Kevin and Phoumalaysy Rhodes who visited the homeland with Australian husband and their kids. And there are others.
Does it matter if the Captain is: Kmer, Viet, Burma, Thai, Malay or Indo ??? the most important right now Lao need more technology that can tell or warn them a head of time.
Geoffrey Thomas, from airlineratings.com, says he rated Lao Airlines as a 'four out of seven star airline' because it hadn't participated in an international safety audit.
'The major problem with the airline is that it has not taken part in an audit which is conducted by The International Air Transport Association (IATA), it's their operational and safety audit,' he told Melbourne radio station 3AW.
'To join IATA, which is the main body in aviation today, you have to actually pass this.'
He says airlines that have passed the audit have a '4.3 times better safety record than airlines that have not'.
'So it's a major audit of the airline's whole systems top to tail,' Mr Thomas added.