A crew of the national carrier flag Vietnam Airlines was fined for inviting actress and former Vietnam’s Tourist Ambassador Ly Nha Ky to cockpit and posing photos with her during a flight from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City.
The crew of the flight 595 invited Ly Nha Ky to enter cockpit and two pilots steadily posed photos with her while they were controlling the flight on April 11th.
Captain Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Y was fined VND 3 million by the Department of Civil Aviation for violation of flight safety rules and another VND 4 million for permitting passenger to enter cockpit. Other members of crew were also fined. Their flying licenses and attendant certificates were withdrawn for one month.
The former Tourist Ambassador wasn’t reprimanded because she was allowed by the crew.
The Department of Civil Aviation did not know about the scandal before some of photos were posted in Ly Nha Ky’s Facebook page. Although she deleted them a day later they were caught in the Internet very fast.
