MAS stands by Fokker audit

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is standing by the audit report submitted by Fokker Services Asia Pte Ltd on Fly Asian Xpress Sdn Bhd's (FAX) aircraft, which stated that half of FAX's rural services fleet were not airworthy and that parts of the grounded aircraft had been cannibalised. 

MAS executive director/chief financial officer Tengku Datuk Azmil Zahruddin said that when the airlines was requested to take over the rural air services, it noted that four out of FAX's seven Fokkers and one of its five Twin Otters were grounded.