Immediately after the accident, a James Boyd was identified as the SIA spokesperson who told the Fox News Channel that no fatalities occurred in the crash. The airline subsequently had to revise that to state that fatalities had occurred.
John Diaz, a producer who has made more than 1,000 music videos and a passenger on the flight, was the one who pointed out the cover-up attempt and disputed the claim that there were no deaths. "There had to be fatalities," he said. Describing the crash, he said there was a loud bang. "And then there were flames just all over the place. Flames shot up right next to me and some some poor fellow not very far from me got I guess jet fuel splashed on him, because he just lit up like a torch."
William Dwan of Canyon Country called the airline's 1-800 number for information about his wife several times but that officials told him they would contact him when they knew more. "I feel very bad. I'm kind of upset," said Dwan, 45. "They should have told us something."
Briton PR Rick Clements was identified as the airline public affairs chief (last official title "Vice-President of Public Affairs", resigned Apr 2004) who said it was "a bit harsh" to say SIA had one of the world's worst safety records in recent times when the performance of its subsidiary SilkAir was also taken into account. A SilkAir flight crashed in Indonesia in 1997, killing all 104 on board.
What exactly was Forshaw doing when the heat was on in the aftermath of the SQ006 crash is unclear. But hopefully he won't take off for Australia in a jiffy like the NTUC foreign talent did, when the going gets tough.
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all these so called "ft"/"expats" are useless.
ReplyDeleteI believe our MassCommunication graduates from NgeeAnn, NUS and Hossan Leong plus Dick Lee can be our MRT spokesman.
DeletePrediction on what the new Spokesman will say on the job:
"The Huei Chia is a new train that was in service since its beginning," said HueiChia spokesman . "There's very little by way of an international benchmark to measure things by LaoTeeApe and HueiChia."
"We have now reduced HueiChia stoppages, and new Bombastic hueichia from Germany have being bought. We are now changing the tracks from timber to concrete.", says HueiChia spokesman. My salary is secret. It is just a few millions a year. nothing much.
FT spokesman are good. They can balik kampong right away if they screwed up, eiher through work or just having a big mouth. Aftermath of such stupidity is that locals have to clean up the mess. Is that why local corporations like to employed them?
ReplyDeleteWell.
ReplyDeleteSounds like SIA may need some good PR spin doctor.
Wonder if there is any good PR firms in Singapore?
How about Hill & Knowlton?
How about Baey?
No more horsing around please.
DeleteDid you read about the disabled girl who was murdered by the maid who was employed to look after her while both the parents were at work?
ReplyDeleteThe parents have to pay a family tax (maid's levy) to the government to employ the maid.
Wonder if the govt. will give the parents a refund on the maid's levy?
Baying around and horsing around are same same.
ReplyDeleteBig mouths that keep baying sweet nothing and repaired swollen big hearts with no conscience are no different.
Yep!
ReplyDeleteWhat bloody good are those sick hearts and bullshits!
Why need an angmo to spin on us locals? SMRT is not SIA doing international business! I guess they have other motive?
ReplyDeleteFor a start, maybe we need an experienced MRT FT to be CEO to take care of the engineering and operation aspects, but we have an ex-General!
All those foreigners given senior posts are functioning as trash bins.
ReplyDeleteThey will be made to suck up all the dirt and shit when the need arises. They will be compensated handsomely to leave carrying away with them all blame.
It is a strategy often used, however, can the ploy works everytime?
The re-branding of Singapore Part One - MICA
ReplyDeleteThe re-branding of Singapore Part Two - GLCs
With two paper generals at helm, expect more trouble ahead. Those with SMRT shares better wise up and sell.
ReplyDeleteAiyah, paper general or not, government need to place them somewhere. Singapore is a small country, surely you will bump into one general once awhile.
DeleteI do not understand why you need an ang moh to be the spokesman for SMRT when most of the commuters are the average singaporeans?????Quite alot of them do not even speak english or read the ST?? Can the Ang moh speak mandarin,malay, tamil or even hokkien??
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter if you speak only English, if you're foreign and ang mo. However, Sporeans, who canot speak Mandarin, are found unsuitable for such jobs, even if their English is as good or better (not difficult this) than an ang mo.
DeleteBut isn't it strange that there are no 42 year old - or older or slightly younger - Sporeans who do not have the experience and background to take on the post given to Stephen? How did our PMEs sink so low, become so unqualified, in just 10 to 15 years?
Are we confronting a new mystery here viz The Case of the Missing Qualified PME? Are we looking at a new-style colonial takeover, 50 years after we threw the colonialists out?
Tsk, so many questions, so few answers.
Something is seriously wrong with our ministry. NTUC employ Aussie to drive membership and SMRT hire another Aussie to explain to Ah Peck, Ah Soh & Pak Chit about train delays.
DeleteSee how our 'Foreign Talent' policy can backfire at our PAP Ministers especially when they keep insisting that these kind of talents will provide jobs for Singaporeans.
ReplyDeleteThe best joke must be when even our own local union NTUC actually gives priority to employ a foreigner (albeit she's a PR) over a true blue Singaporean.
Instead of finding a mere excuse over his hasty decision to sack her, maybe it would help salvage NTUC's public image better if our Zorro Lim Jiak Sai can care to explain why Singapore can shun such Assistant Director positions or was it a case that NTUC actually don't care that much about ourworkers' interests in the first place?
Don't forget our polytechics & Universities, they gave priorities to foreign students (20%), who eventually become our children managers!
DeleteAMTK?
ReplyDeleteCause they have money to spend, and dont want you, locals, to have the money.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you going to do about it...Cow peh Cow bu only lah...
"...a sign saying NO DOGS OR CHINESE at the entrance to a Shanghai park in the 1920s."
ReplyDeleteDo your substitution for Chinese to Singkies. "...There are more dogs than humans in Singapore" - Sun Xu.
Our powers that be have such a low regard for it's own people - dafts, lazy, need spurs in their hides, xenophobic etc. So more foreign talents needed - ang moh tua ki (AMTK)! Singapore is being re-colonised, this time by aliens and the super rich.
Isn't this a true case of Ang mos tua kee?To serve all the not so rich Singaporeans and foreign workers who do not have a car,SMRT must emply one Ang Mo to serve them.All the Singaporeans fail to qualify for this position?
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