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The president of American Airline's flight attendants' union said the airline initially underestimated the problems regarding its new uniforms, was slow to address them and even now is not willing to conduct thorough tests. "If we can get this classified as a real problem and start realising that 11% [of flight attendants] is a big number, they will do something," said Bob Ross, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. "The company has never felt it was a real issue," Ross said. An American spokeswoman said the carrier tested thoroughly before introducing the uniforms Sept 20, responded quickly as soon as it learned of widespread concerns and "continues to remain committed to working with APFA to reach a resolution for our team members as quickly as possible." <br/>

The abandonment of the search last week for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean leaves all sorts of critical questions unanswered. Transport authorities in Malaysia, China and Australia cited the absence of “credible new evidence leading to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft” for their Jan 17 decision to abandon the search. However, new evidence did coincidentally emerge only a few weeks before the decision to suspend the search. The confidential Malaysian police report into the incident, which includes an analysis of data from the flight simulator removed from MH370 Captain Zahari’s home, was leaked to French media. The data includes a flight path that leads to the southern Indian Ocean, with 6 waypoints charted, with altitudes and fuel states. <br/>