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Air France condemns 'sabotage attempts' reports
Air France has condemned media reports that it has suffered a string of sabotage attempts on its planes by radicalised ground staff.
In a statement the airliner described the claims published in the Le Carnard Enchaine as completely false and unfounded rumours.
On Wednesday the investigative and satirical weekly reported that French Intelligence had raised the alarm following a series of incidents involving Air France passenger jets at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
That included an apparent attempt to cut the communication between the cockpit and the engines on several planes.
According to the paper around 40 planes were also daubed with ‘‘Alahu akbar’‘ or ‘‘God is great’‘on the fuel flap, which resulted in one pilot refusing to take off.
Kilopond wrote:Air France has issued a politically correct denial.
http://www.euronews.com/2016/10/06/air- ... ts-reports
PlanesNTrains wrote:While we can't read the article, it seems to allude to graffiti. Was that the extent of what it discusses? If so, might we be revisiting something akin to the UA debacle in Asia when the F/A's refused to fly because some ramp guys scribbled graffiti in the hold?
dampfnudel wrote:I hope it was false.
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Aesma wrote:Le Canard Enchainé is a satirical newspaper, but a serious one. They have high level contacts everywhere. They're not always right, but very often, they are. Often, people singled out by it (corrupt politicians, for example) claim they will bring them to court, but very few do (and a handful win).
CARST wrote:Okay... I love satirical media and I very much enjoy investigative media instead of any yellow press publishings, but what the hell is a newspaper that writes investigative AND satirical stuff at the same time without marking the articles as satirical content? How is the reader of such newspaper supposed to find out what is true and what is not? Then I could just go and buy papers like the daily fail. Seems not very logical too me.
aw70 wrote:That can be quite a reasonable strategy precisely for cases where you publish really hot stuff. Especially when satirical stuff is routinely not clearly labeled as such within the medium. Basically, you could at least try to argue that nothing inside the covers of your medium should be taken seriously. This can be a protection of sorts.
CARST wrote:Aesma wrote:Le Canard Enchainé is a satirical newspaper, but a serious one. They have high level contacts everywhere. They're not always right, but very often, they are. Often, people singled out by it (corrupt politicians, for example) claim they will bring them to court, but very few do (and a handful win).
Okay... I love satirical media and I very much enjoy investigative media instead of any yellow press publishings, but what the hell is a newspaper that writes investigative AND satirical stuff at the same time without marking the articles as satirical content? How is the reader of such newspaper supposed to find out what is true and what is not? Then I could just go and buy papers like the daily fail. Seems not very logical too me.
And even if this was just a "joke" it was a stupid one, because it can create panic with the not so experienced travellers...
CARST wrote:Okay... I love satirical media and I very much enjoy investigative media instead of any yellow press publishings, but what the hell is a newspaper that writes investigative AND satirical stuff at the same time without marking the articles as satirical content?
intotheair wrote:AF has strongly refuted the article, which came from only one French newspaper that is known for publishing investigative and satirical content.
enilria wrote:What kind of mixture is investigative and satirical? That's like if TheOnion.com and The Economist.com merged.
enilria wrote:What kind of mixture is investigative and satirical? That's like if TheOnion.com and The Economist.com merged.