MH192

Passengers heap praise on pilot of Malaysia Airlines MH192

SEPANG (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Passengers of a Malaysia Airlines flight which had suffered a burst tyre were full of praise for its pilot Captain Nor Adam Azmi Abd Razak, whom they said had handled the situation professionally.

They commended him for carrying out text-book safety procedures to land the aircraft safely at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

In the incident on Monday night, the Boeing 737-800, flight code MH192, which was bound for Bangalore, India, was forced to return to KLIA after a tyre in its right-hand landing gear burst during take-off.

The aircraft was carrying 159 passengers and seven crew members.