Sichuan Airlines Employee Suspended for Online Polemic Remarks
A Sichuan Airlines passenger aircraft.
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Sichuan Airlines Corp. suspended one of its employees after contentious comments he posted online were unearthed, highlighting growing jitters in China after a deadly air crash last month.
An internet user took to Weibo on April 10 to ask the carrier to prevent the staff member in question -- identifiable as an ethnic Mongolian Chinese national called Ayingga -- from flying because of his politically sensitive posts, some of which dated from 2015.