Singapore Flyer FIASCO - MERGED thread.

[Hope]

Re: Singapore Flyer Breakdowns.....Maybe The Real Story Behind......

Agreed.

How to make money when costs is supposedly $240 million to construct.

MIW kenna bluff by FT company again?

Bank loan about S$170 million,interest charges about S$14 million per year.
Equity about S$70 million,based on 10%,they need S$7 millin a year.

Assuming running expense of S$1 million per month,and depn of about $20 million a year.
So total expected receipt should be around S$41 million p.a.= 4 million per month

 

[Singapaporean]

Re: Over 100 people trapped in Singapore Flyer

Oh really? The 154th is again singing praises for the pappies.

Of course ..State Times must do national service mah...the world's newsapaper got conspiracy to do singapore in

 

[Hope]

Re: Over 100 people trapped in Singapore Flyer

Of course ..State Times must do national service mah...the world's newsapaper got conspiracy to do singapore in

HaHaHa,not only the newspaper in the west akll plan 20 years to do Spore in,according to MM LKY and then new AG Walter Woon plus Ms Chan whatever,you can see here many people,(Spore citizens,residents,foreigners)all want Spore to die.Waht a pity.

Our host Sam proclaimed that

Spore is the most fuck up country,which I do not agree,Spore is definitely better than ZamBawee & Sudan.

 

[theblackhole]

You guys really love to bash Singapore.

An accident is an accident.Fortunately nobody gets injured.Traumatised perhaps or fainted.But no major casualties.

We should praise the men who went to the rescue.Kudos to our SCDF men who braved the heights and the risks to bring the people to safety. We should give kind comments instead of making curses and bashing the world's best Flyer in world's best country.

You guys simply love to see Singapore fall and bite the dust. Why so?

Anyway, the whole incident is a non-event. Don't exaggerate it as if the whole world is going to end with the Flyer stopping for 6 hours. Anything can happen to anybody anywhere. Why so harsh on the Singapore's Flyer?

Have a Blessed Christmas tomorrow.

 

[88max]

Rescue method dangerous: Reader

Rescue workers gingerly scaling the ladders and spokes of the Singapore Flyer; stranded passengers winched down in safety harnesses an inch at a time.

If the stalled Flyer did not resume operation, it would have taken till today morning to rescue all 173 passengers.

Singapore Flyer general manger Steven Yeo said in a New Paper report that it would take about 30 minutes to rescue one person, and they had no idea how long the repairs would take to allow the wheel to start turning again.

The world’s highest observation wheel grounded to a halt at 4.50 pm yesterday, leaving 173 passengers – comprising locals and tourists – stranded for up to seven hours.

Thankfully the wheel started turning again at around 11pm, and only ten people were rescued through the ‘rappelling’ rescue measures, which commenced at around 7.30pm, reported The New Paper.

The ordeal may have passed but comments and criticisms are rife about whether the incident was properly handled by the Singapore Flyer management.

Many on local internet forums accepted that rare technical faults were permissible on such a complexly engineered observation wheel.

However many lamented the ‘rappelling’ rescue method employed.

“I find it quite strange to have such dangerous rescue action that is uncalled for. There is no danger like the past case of cable snap for cable car service to Sentosa,” said AsiaOne forum poster ycleong.

“This is only pure functional failure. Re-assurance effort should be taken to calm down flight visitors and to bring them food and water via the maintenance routes on the Flyer; while expediting the repair and recovery works to resume operations,” he added.

“It is definitely a very poor engineering and safety design, why not back-up power to bring it down manually. Someone should re-look at the overall features again”, said user MacZZ.

Straitstimes.com forum user panasonicvista, who claimed to be one of the stranded passengers, said “crisis management skills were extremely poor”.

“There was no honesty, they refused to talk to us on several occasions on the PA system and when we got down the bottom, they were 100% concerned about getting us away from the media and not about telling us what happened.”

“All we needed was for them to say ‘Apologies, we are going to evacuate the people on the bottom first, however due to safety reasons, it is likely you will be up there for several more hours.’

“Instead, they asked - how many tourists are there in your cabin?” added panasonicvista.

 

[Hope]

You guys really love to bash Singapore.

An accident is an accident.Fortunately nobody gets injured.Traumatised perhaps or fainted.But no major casualties.

We should praise the men who went to the rescue.Kudos to our SCDF men who braved the heights and the risks to bring the people to safety. We should give kind comments instead of making curses and bashing the world's best Flyer in world's best country.

You guys simply love to see Singapore fall and bite the dust. Why so?

Anyway, the whole incident is a non-event. Don't exaggerate it as if the whole world is going to end with the Flyer stopping for 6 hours. Anything can happen to anybody anywhere. Why so harsh on the Singapore's Flyer?

Have a Blessed Christmas tomorrow.

Aiya,world class newspaper like New York Times and Washington Post must plan 20 years ahead to do Spore aka PAP in,so what is these non-sense by a bunch armchair criitics?

You should wirte to New York Times and re-assure them lah,do yr NS.

 

[Leongsam]

“Instead, they asked - how many tourists are there in your cabin?” added panasonicvista.

Tourists rank way ahead of Sinkie peasants. It was therefore very important to know which cabins contained tourists so they would receive priority treatment from the rescue team.

 

[theblackhole]

You know and I know why the foreign media love to bash Singapore.They are simply envious and jealous.They want Singapore to fall because we are doing much better than most developed countries despite our size and our limited resources.The foreign media got no news to attract the readership because they've been writing rubbish about Singapore.

So The Flyer event became a world event - an opportunity to bash and whack Singapore! Come on lah! Don't be so childish okay! We've rollercoasters that crashed and killed people and we have all sorts of things happening in the world of excitement all over the world. And our Singapore Flyer got so much attention and with so many unfair comments.

Those tourists should count their lucky stars the whole wheel did not crash down.They should come down, kiss the ground and kiss the super efficiency of our world class governance. I like the American family who are going to take their tour up the Flyer despite this small little incident.

And what a shame! You Singaporeans are salivating and hoping that more bad and tragic things will happen to Singapore! Oh what a shame! When things really go bad here, you don't even have the chance to sit here and type your nonsense! So go and be thankful to our first world governance.

Thank you and have a Blessed Christmas.

 

[dysentry]

ccb... first world hardware third world software

 

[tonychat]

You know and I know why the foreign media love to bash Singapore.They are simply envious and jealous.They want Singapore to fall because we are doing much better than most developed countries despite our size and our limited resources.The foreign media got no news to attract the readership because they've been writing rubbish about Singapore.

You are a self-deluded sinkie. Foreign media do not care if Sg is good or bad. It is the fact that such shameful incident has happened and they just report it accurately.

It is your SinkieTImes that try to hide here and there like a coward and do not want to show the truth of what happen. If you make a mistake, pls have the courage to face it and not try to bring it down. This really show what sort of character your govt is.

 

[tonychat]

ccb... first world hardware third world software

Same as sinkie. Act first world but 3rd world in the character and thinking.

The whole management and system are run by sinkies and that means, the whole system are being sinkified and that is what happen. You get to witness sinkie processes and behavior during the rescue operation and reporting about it.

 

[0939]

Bad omen. The three tombstone not even erected and the three tombs not even completed. We have many happenings. 2009 is not going to be a good year. So be
prepared.

 

[tonychat]

The only way to save sinkieland is for sinkies to unsinkified themselves, that is the only way, no other way. Forget those economic and management theory and science, if it is run by sinkies, nothing works.

 

[theblackhole]

You are a self-deluded sinkie. Foreign media do not care if Sg is good or bad. It is the fact that such shameful incident has happened and they just report it accurately.

It is your SinkieTImes that try to hide here and there like a coward and do not want to show the truth of what happen. If you make a mistake, pls have the courage to face it and not try to bring it down. This really show what sort of character your govt is.

What so deluded about such an incident? It's common to find even the best planned event going wrong. Nobody is to be blamed. Whatever men created or invented will be flawed. I personally believe this Flyer incident is just another incident.Why make such a big hallabalooooo about this? What so shameful about this? In fact, I'm happy that nobody was injured and there were no casualties. In fact we should be grateful to the brave men from our SCDF who came to the rescue. What so wrong about the whole operation?

I'm proud of this world class government. What's so shameful about being proud of your own government. I'm sure you are very proud of the Thai gahment too. What coward? What sort of truth do you want from The Flyer? An accident had happened and efforts were made to ensure the safety of the people in the cabins.

What would you do? Do you want to send commandos to storm the Flyer? Or you want to go in immediately and upset the whole equilibrium of the whole Flyer causing the cabins to rock and dislodge? What would your Thai gahment do in this instance?

Anyway, this is a forum. Have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year.

 

[tonychat]

The Thai govt will first apologised to the people affected SINCERELY and then compensate them with free tourist accommodation and food vouchers.

IN the news media, the thai govt will seek forgiveness from the tourist affected and apologised profusely and allow the media to write watever they want because it is no shame to apologise and in fact it is a merit to do so.

That is why i am proud of the Thai govt and the Thais, very unsinkified behavior.

 

[angie II]

tonychat.. very tired of reading ur sinkiefied/unsinkiefied related posts... change menu or we'll juz have ta skip ur posts.

 

[Singapaporean]

ccb... first world hardware third world software

Aiyah...must be THANKFUL (reminds me of Dr Teo)...else they let the people stay up there longer

 

[depeche]

Re: Over 100 people trapped in Singapore Flyer

Oh,you should never take Leong San -the boss of dis Kopi-Tiam seriously.

First of all,he is ex and now multi-millionaire fr Australia.

Secondly,his daily fun right now is to write 6 pro-PAP comments praising PAP to high sky and the remaining 4 condenming PAP to hell

I dont see anything wrong with that,do you?

This is clearly a very flexible mind who would do extremly well in dis CON age.

If he is a multi-millionaire in Australia, hopefully he do pays his fair share of tax contribution

 

[Cestbon]

Re: Over 100 people trapped in Singapore Flyer

I hope those affected will sue them for what happened.
If LHL had just been a colonel he would be made the hero directing the operation. Remember the cable car incident at between Mt Faber and Sentosa? One was made hero while others died in the accident.

If everyone sue Singapore Flyer. Sure need few millions to settle eg, lawyer fee, pyhchology doctor, doctor,hospital bill..........lost of income.
And then Singapore Flyer will come out with new rules : Ride at your own Risks with signature like bumgy jump

 

[Cestbon]

Bad omen. The three tombstone not even erected and the three tombs not even completed. We have many happenings. 2009 is not going to be a good year. So be
prepared.

HA ha ha. Maybe the Wheel will FLY off from it support beam and Marina area will be on fire like burning hell money since the tombstone so big then need a big fire loh.