KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) pilot, who was caught and fined for importing child pornography in Adelaide, has been relieved of flying duties to facilitate an internal enquiry by the national carrier.
The 25-year-old pilot was arrested by Customs officers at the Adelaide International Airport last Thursday after they found three video files containing child pornography in his laptop.
ABC News said that when the pilot arrived at the airport, he told them he did not have anything to declare.
But when Customs officers searched his laptop, they found the child video files.
A lawyer told the court that the pilot had been e-mailed the video files and had not shown them to anyone else.
“He was simply reckless, this was not material brought in to be disseminated,” lawyer Stephen Barratt told the Adelaide court.
MAS said it was conducting an enquiry under the terms of an agreement between the airline and the Malaysian air pilots’ assocation.
Report from The Star, Malaysia
