Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Following a report indicating that villagers are scavenging debris of the plane that crashed (in Kampot province) to sell to scrap metal dealers, government officials and an official from PMT Air claimed that they are not concerned about the villagers scavenging plane debris to sell. Khuoy Khun Huor, the deputy governor of the province of Kampot said that the villagers are carting off the plane metallic debris to sell as scrap metal, but he said that he is not concerned about this, as all the (investigation) work has already been completed. Khuoy Khun Huor told The Cambodia Daily that there is no need to investigate further on the plane carcass because it is no longer important. Eng Suosdey, the deputy secretary of state of the civil aviation department, also said that the plane carcass is no longer important, what his department needed was the plane’s black box only in order to find out the cause of the crash. Sar Sareth, president of PMT Air, the company that operates the crashed plane, said that he is happy to see the villagers carting off with the plane debris because it avoided his company from paying to clean up the site by itself. He said that the remainder of the plane is more valuable to the villagers than it is to his company.
2 comments:
Due to corruption, Cambodian people are reduced to live on scraps! AH HUN SEN government lacks the will power to help Cambodian people in every way!
Who need OPPOSITION PARTY when desperate Cambodian people can get their hand on guns and bullets! AH Khieu Kanharith will eat his own words!
If these useless government officials saw TV programmes, such as "Seconds from Disaster" and "Blue Print for Disaster" on Discovery Channel or National Geographic Channel, they would notice that the NTSB (National Transport Safety Board) collect every piece of the plane for their ongoing investigation even if the voice and flight recorders are found. They could at least secure the site until the case is closed if they did not have the manpower to collect the plane debris.
What would these officials do if the black boxes indicate that there was a catastrophic mechanical failure in the plane leading to the crash? They would say, in an intoxicating spirit from a heavy drinking and karaoke session the night before, that they would check with the Et Chay (scrap collectors) about that. They always have got away with their nonsense judgment, because their bosses are also incompetent, and the ordinary people usually pay the price with their lives.
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