Malaysian Air Systems

The National Overseas Student Service of Australia has sent a message of support for Australian unions who blacked the Malaysian Air Systems DC 10 as a response to reprisals by the Malaysian Government on striking airline workers and officials of the International Transport Workers Federation in Kuala Lumpur.

The MAS staff wont on a strike over pay negotiations, but officials of both the local and international unions were jailed under the Internal Security Act, after the government had decided that any threat to MAS was a threat to the security of the country.

In order to patch up bad relations with the Malaysian government and the ASEAN group, Australian PM Malcolm Fraser sent in the Royal Australian Air Force to break the strike and "hijack" the DC 10 back to Malaysia.