RIP my condolences to all who perished

A team of AAIB inspectors and support staff travelled to Leicester on Saturday night, with further inspectors travelling yesterday morning. Last night, the police said they believe that tragically all five people on board the aircraft died in the accident.

We have inspectors here from all four air accident investigation disciplines: engineering, operations, flight data and human factors.

We recovered the digital flight data recorder (voice and data) on Sunday afternoon and one of our inspectors travelled back to Farnborough with the recorder the same evening. Today, our inspectors in Farnborough will start working on the recorder, which was subject to intense heat as a result of the post-accident fire. More....

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-on-leicester-helicopter-accident-g-vskp

Interesting that it’s not particular big news story in Thailand


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RIP

RIP to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Nursara Suknamai, Kaveporn Punpare, Eric Swaffer, Izabela Roza Lechowicz.

 

The chairman was much loved by everybody at the club, probably the most loved owner in the history of the club, and the club and city are grieving along with his family.
 

https://www.facebook.com/lcfc/videos/751672825187802

On 10/29/2018 at 7:31 PM, markaoffy said:

Interesting that it’s not particular big news story in Thailand

All the major TV stations here have had a lot of news about this for the last 48 hours. 

 

You can express your condolences here: 

https://www.kingpower.com/condolence

 

 

He was certainly a kind and generous man, even to the point of giving out free beers and soup to thousands of fans. RIP

 

Less attention has been paid to his business interests. I read somewhere that in 2003 he was granted the monopoly (from the highest authority) for all duty-free shops and outlets in the country. I am not saying that he himself was dodgy, although the duty-free business has many sidelines and loopholes. When I go to Malaysia, I know of several shops which manage to sell whisky or gin "from the duty-free at Singapore" (I am told), but which cost half of the supermarket price. Similarly, I would imagine that if I were a well-connected person in Africa or anywhere, and I wanted 200 bottles of Krug for my wedding, I would contact my friends in the wholesale or D/F business before I went into a normal shop. As a private citizen I always buy liquor at the D/F because I don't pay duty on the bottle, and neither does the D/F shop on the sale. Countries in the West may have bonded warehouses, where Customs can tally who buys for what (in quantity), but I am not sure whether asian countries have them. I have been told that the cheap scotch (with real label, not Tesco) that I buy in KL actually comes from the Philippines and is only 90% good (ethanol added in small amounts). Liquor I bought from KP in the past tasted 100% genuine to me, although my belief is that the D/F market worldwide is not easy to monitor, especially if you are a big player.

 

 

On 10/29/2018 at 7:31 PM, markaoffy said:

Interesting that it’s not particular big news story in Thailand


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There is a big news story about the business practices in Thailand of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha but there is a kind of self-censorship at work. For obvious reasons many will think it's not right to dwell on it now - nil mortuis nisi bonum etc.

 

The details are opaque but some things are clear. A small downtown duty-free shop morphing into an exclusive all-encompassing US$ 5 billion monopoly in a very few years. Firstly under Thaksin then continued under the Junta. Some decent journalists have alluded to this story but understandably haven't wanted to elaborate now.

 

People are complicated. Good can sit along less attractive qualities. One is sorry about the tragedy and those it has affected.