Luo Chung-kuei, a Taiwanese businessman, wrote a letter to the newspapers in which he pointed out that the much-hyped "first plane out" had actually been chartered by the Taipei office of his company after the Indonesian office of the Business Association of the ROC and the MOTC had failed to arrange a plane.
台商羅貴投書報端指出，被大肆渲染成「第一架撤僑專機」的長榮飛機，其實是他們公司在向駐印尼中華商會、台灣外交部等單位求援不成之下，由台灣分公司包租的專機。