Yep, email went out to all this morning and announced to media shortly afterwards.
AJ deserves to cop a lot of flack but I’m surprised Dicky and the rest of the board have so far managed to avoid the heat.
AJ was pretty much in caretaker mode only and Vanessa has been steering the ship for a little while so like any handover he probably should have gone sooner
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Donk goes bonk
Baby “gender reveal” goes bad.
Uh, throughout the plane?
Yep
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Probably not many worse places than an aircraft for some sort of gastro bug to become heavily symptomatic.
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That’s quite funny because I wasn’t on the plane
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I had salmonella come on as I was queued at Heathrow to get on a flight to Auckland.
It wasn’t pretty. Spent 24 hours in a 747 toilet and was wheelchaired thru customs at the other end.
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Yes, helicopters suffer the same aerodynamic issue, however it seems to be more dangerous in the tilt rotors as they have a roll initiated if one side suffers vortex ring (settling with power) before the other, no doubt the size, shape and rpm of the rotor all play a part too. It’s normally fairly straightforward to recover from in a helicopter, provided it doesn’t occur too close to the ground.
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I had an excruciating sunburn on my back on the plane from Hawaii and ended up laying face down on my stomach while my wife applied an ice pack for two or three hours. The plane ran out of ice for drinks because of me. One of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever experienced; just wanted to crawl in a hole. I took a 30 minute cold shower when I got home.
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I had a similar expertise on a flight from India to Manila.
Ambulance met the plane and I was taken straight to hospital. Spent 10 days in hospital and lost 16 kg. All Mrs Fox did when I arrived home at Tulla was look at my new thinner body and say how well I looked !
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I lost consciousness at Hanoi airport waiting in line to get checked into a flight when I was 18.
Not sick, but a combination of hangover from partying at a bar nearby the hotel I was staying at and the ridiculous heat/humidity a Vietnamese summer can produce.
All I got was a bottle of water and laughed at by airline staff and other passengers. They still let me board the flight!
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Eeekkk. Full on salmonella is the worst.
I remember getting a pain associated with salmonella which was worse than the visible symptoms.
Greek bus, mid summer no aircon, navigating many many hairpin bends as we climbed over a mountain range… As someone vomited in the front rows and the road got steeper, this caused a kind of a domino effect of people vomiting which, by the time it got to the back seats was a irresistable pungent tsunami. Shocking.
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Which in turn reminds me of many road and ferry trips in Indonesia. From Siantar to Lake Toba is only 50 km. A few trips taken with a dozen or so passengers crammed into small 1 litre Diahatsu vans resulted in everyone reaching for the plastic bag, except myself and the driver.
For a notion of islands, Indonesians were hopeless sailors. There were a few passengers vomiting in the gentlest of swells before the ferry had even cast off from the pier. Hopeless. As the swell picked up, so did the use of more and more plastic bags. I made the best of the mild conditions, by going to sleep on the deck floor, but ended up rolling around from cabin wall to wall.
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Cabin crews on planes use coffee grounds to kill the vomit smell. Works a treat and the aisles can be safer to walk on.
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Much like Filipino’s then.
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French airforce display team crashed a jet on takeoff. Pilot ejected. Impressive video.
https://x.com/alertchannel/status/1703092102089904368?s=46&t=A5S-z5IJslFoC5SVN0Jodg
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