KUALA LUMPUR: The Singapore Airlines (SIA) social media site has been bombarded by angry netizens over its insensitive remarks hours after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 tragedy took place on Thursday night.
On Friday, the airline in its Facebook and Twitter pages posted “Customers may wish to note that Singapore Airlines flights are not using Ukraine airspace”.
The post had garnered angry responses from its customers, bashing the airline for being insensitive towards the people involved in the tragedy
It is believed the airline had published the statement in response to customers query on whether the airline used the same route as MH17.
Flightradar24.com, a website that provides global flight tracking, published an image showing SIA flight SQ351 flying within 25km of MH17 when it lost contact with air traffic controllers at about 10.15pm on Thursday.
The website revealed MAS flew there 48 times compared with SIA, which flew 75 times in the Ukrainian airspace.
A Facebook user by the name Dusty Alive had posted on SIA’s Facebook page — “Why do you lie? SQ351 was 25km from MH17 in Ukrainian airspace”.
SIA on Saturday issued an apology and expressed condolences to the families affected by the tragedy.