It's time for Cathay Pacific to fasten its seat belt

THAT SECURITY IS SUPREME ON flights is a well-known fact. It is equally well known that no one should tamper with any equipment in an airplane. And flight crew should be the last people to break this rule, comments China Daily writer Zhu Yuan.

Yet 13 empty and partly empty bottles of oxygen were found on two Cathay Pacific flights from Hong Kong to Toronto on Aug 17 and 18. Another empty bottle of oxygen was found on a flight operated by Cathay Dragon (a subsidiary of Cathay Pacific) before it took off for Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

Investigators are yet to identify the suspects or whether they have any links with the illegal demonstrations in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, but the recent actions of some Cathay Pacific employees suggest their minds have been poisoned by anti-Chinese mainland ideas.