RR> Though, their cockpit culture and training methods (NOT STANDARDS) are  
  RR> still Korea's number one issue.  
    
  As a rule, I stay away from Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian airliners ...  
    
  I've seen intoxicated Russians. The one time I let my daughter fly Aeroflot  
  to China was when I knew the cockpit crews of their 777s at that time were  
  German.  
    
  I may have told this before, but one time I was queueing for immigration  
  either at SEATAC or MSP and over the PA came an announcement "Japanese  
  translator for booth 11 (or 14)". That was where the flight crews went  
  through and there was the captain of a Japan Airlines 787 waiting to be  
  processed... his language proficiency of English was inadequate ... So I  
  started staying away from Japanese airlines as well.  
    
  Call me crazy? After they ridiculed the findings of thorough accident  
  investigation teams I started to avoid Egyptian and Turkish as well. That  
  was after the Egyptian 767 suicide crash in the Atlantic and the Turkish  
  737 incident at Amsterdam when Turkey rejected pilot error after obvious  
  faulty radio altimeter readings and the plane stalled at low altitude.  
    
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