Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department is seeking a formal explanation from Cathay Pacific after photos and videos of an attractive woman in the cockpit on a flight from Taipei to Hong Kong emerged last week.
The footage and images, posted to Weibo and widely circulated on social media before being deleted by their author, 28-year-old Ada Ng, sparked debated about flight security.
The controversial event is just the latest of cockpit cock-ups involving Cathay Pacific employees.
In 2011, for example, a pilot and flight attendant were sacked after photos of them engaging in oral sex in the cockpit were leaked on the internet.
The photos emerged just days before an ad campaign – featuring pilots and flight attendants with the slogan “Meet the team who go the extra mile to make you feel special” – was launched.
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In a statement to the SCMP about the most recent incident, Cathay Pacific said immediate family members and employees were allowed in the cockpit’s “jump seat”.
They, however, declined to confirm whether Ng was either of the above, citing privacy concerns.
One of Ng’s photos shows her ticket with the seat allocation “JMP”, suggesting she had been correctly assigned the seat.
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