I'm pretty sure that policy had existed for decades before this crash, Air Niugini just wasn't following it. - Admiral Cloudberg - Medium

I'm assuming that this is one of the flights that led to pretty much all airlines having a policy…

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I'm pretty sure that policy had existed for decades before this crash, Air Niugini just wasn't following it.

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