Well, we don’t remember the cabin being quite that small, but the military in Malaysia cancelled the purchase of four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters after the nation’s serving monarch declared them to be “flying coffins.”

In a public statement delivered during a military parade in the South Pacific island nation, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, the 17th king of Malaysia, said that a plan by the nation’s military to buy four Black Hawks — all roughly 30-year-old former U.S. Army helicopters — was a bad idea.

“Do we want to put our pilots in a ‘flying coffin?’” Sultan Ibrahim asked, according to the Malay-language daily paper Utusan Malaysia.

It was unclear if the monarch’s comments were aimed at the relatively cramped interior of the HH-60 compared to other troop-carrying rotary aircraft in the U

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