A British passenger has died from a heart attack following a bout of very severe air turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore which had to divert to Bangkok. Over 30 people were injured mainly, it seems, because they were not wearing their seatbelts at the time of the terrifying and dangerous incident.
Aviation is always at risk of unexpected turbulence. Nevertheless, the BBC has the story and, unsurprisingly, according to its website the cause of all our woes – climate change – is the smoking gun:
Briton Andrew Davis described “awful screaming and what sounded like a thud” in the first few seconds of the incident.
“The thing I remember the most is seeing objects and things flying through the air.
“I was covered in coffee. It was incredibly severe turbulence,” he told BBC 5 Live.
Another passenger said the aircraft suddenly started “tilting up” and “shaking”.
“I started bracing for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing a seatbelt was launched immediately into the ceiling,” 28-year-old student Dzafran Azmir told Reuters.
“Some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it, they hit the places where lights and masks are and broke straight through it,” he added.
Thai authorities have despatched ambulances and emergency teams to Suvarnabhumi Airport.
Singapore’s Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat said the Government would provide assistance to the passengers and their families.
“I am deeply saddened to learn about the incident on board Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London Heathrow to Singapore,” he posted in a statement on Facebook.
The BBC News report provides a link to another BBC page called ‘Flight turbulence increasing as planet heats up‘ and, lest anyone miss the point, the report ends:
Research has shown that climate change will make severe turbulence more likely in the future.
No link is provided to that ‘research’ since nebulous references to ‘research’ are a prime weapon in climate alarmism.
Radio 4’s World at One bulletin today on the incident also featured the claim that “research” suggests turbulence has increased due to climate change.
Readers of this site were directed a year ago by Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, to another smoking gun: the Reading University Professor responsible for deliberately exaggerating the effects of climate change, whose claims were roundly debunked by Chris on the spot.
The BBC’s report is worth reading in full if only to see what indolent journalism looks like.
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Aye, aye, what’s going on here then? I thought DS had put a lid on this.
It was article the involvement of the Helen MacNamara woman that disappeared from here and from the Telegraph.
I reiterate the points I made last time
1) Does this young lady think it would be OK to ban a fan for posting “anti-Lesbian” or “misogynistic” Tweets? If so then isn’t that a bit inconsistent?
2) Would she accept that identity politics in which she is apparently involved in so far as she “campaigns for gay, bisexual and women’s rights” (not sure what rights those people lack) tends to lead to what has happened to her?
I have nothing personally against the young lady and do not believe she should be banned, think the PL and the club are disgraceful etc etc. Just think we need to look at the bigger picture.
I could apply your post just as easily to JK Rowling.
Possibly. I don’t know much about her, other than she has attracted a lot of vitriol for being a “TERF” and has stood her ground. I don’t know what her general views are on freedom of speech and “identity politics”.
I’m certainly not suggesting that this young lady or J K Rowling should be condemned completely, but if their positions are arguably inconsistent neither should they be approved of completely.
Very few people are free speech absolutists – something I think is a negative.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-project-fear-and-the-vaccine-rewrote-the-software-of-the-brain/
The Great Reset is based on resets of our brains.
“the manipulation of human behaviour has now gone beyond an understanding of psychology, sociology or through ‘nudging’, and into the realms of ‘environmental engineering’.”
Well weren’t we just discussing this very topic yesterday? Yes the censorship net is getting ever tighter, our ability to speak freely throttled by the corrupt, authoritarian woketards;
”Last month the European Parliament passed a report calling on the Council to include hate speech and hate crime among so-called “Euro crimes”.
In other words, offensive speech may soon be established as a criminal offence, which all member states must integrate into their own legal systems. However, no clear threshold has been set for what makes speech prosecutable.
According to Maite Pagazaurtundúa of Renew Europe, rapporteur for the report and Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, “we must protect people who are attacked, persecuted and harassed … always in accordance with the principle of proportionality and guaranteeing freedom of expression for citizens”.
This sounds nice, but it is also dangerously vague.
The Parliament’s report comes as part of a process started by the Commission in 2020. In her inaugural speech, Ursula von der Leyen had stressed the need “to extend the list of EU crimes to all forms of hate crime and hate speech – whether because of race, religion, gender or sexuality”.
This is yet another example of decisions that are being imposed on Europeans top-down.
Would quoting from St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians, where homosexuality is clearly condemned, be banned because it violates somebody’s “dignity”? Would stating that there are only two genders become criminalised? Would saying that Europe should remain a predominantly Christian continent break the law? The questions are not rhetoric.”
https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/the-eus-hate-speech-laws-are-an-attack-on-free-speech-itself-this-years-european-elections-may-be-the-last-chance-to-defend-our-rights/
Von der Leyen show us your deleted TXT messages you corrupt Bit@h.
Yesterday I caught a clip from Jeremy Vine (I know) They were asking for positive experiences from the Lockdowns — Many said more time with family etc, but they had a guest on the show on the big screen who was based. He said he enjoyed the tranquility but also learned to ignore the Press and that Lockdown was the UKs biggest psyop. Nobody answered to that. I’m surprised they invited him on when you consider how they treated Bev Turner, and how fast they got shot of Dan Wotton on there in early 2020.
Thanks tof
I don’t know where she gets them from but some of them are crackers
This is a classic too