We watch Air Disasters on TV, and there seems to be an inordinate amount of Malaysian pilots causing plane crashes, often, it seems, due to arrogance and bullying. Co-pilots and other underlings are berated and ignored. I know nothing of Malaysia; are they caste oriented?
Pakistan airline companies are even worse. The EU and the US has banned them for several years now. The all out ban happened after PIA airbus pilots forgot to lower the landing gear. Somehow the plane manage to get airborne again, but the engines failed and it crashed into a residential neighborhood.
Not like India - ethnic Malays are Muslim and Malaysia has a large Chinese minority that drives the economy. I think it's just the general Asian tendency to defer to the boss, even if he does something idiotic.