Shitskin couple charter entire flight for 170-guest mid-air wedding to get around Covid restrictions

[glockman]

Shweta Sharma
Tue, 25 May 2021, 12:33 am·4-min read

The visuals from a video of the mid-air wedding shows a plane packed with maskless guests as couple exchanged garlands
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A couple in India booked an entire flight for a mid-air wedding to avoid Covid-19 restrictions, but has ended up in even more trouble after videos from the gala event in the skies went viral on social media.

The aviation regulator of India, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Monday ordered an investigation into the wedding which took place aboard a SpiceJet aircraft and suspended the crew involved.

The couple from southern India’s Madurai city in Tamil Nadu booked the entire SpiceJet flight for a few hours to hold their extravagant wedding in the presence of family and friends even as lockdown continued in their state and across most of India.

The couple reportedly exchanged wedding vows in the presence of about 170 guests and family members at the moment the plane was over the Meenakshi Amman temple, one of Tamil Nadu’s best-known.

The visuals of the ceremony showed the plane packed with guests as the couple, clad in wedding attire, exchanged garlands and a camera operator filmed the moment.

But the wedding comes in the middle of a raging global pandemic and at a time when most states are under lockdown restrictions to break the chain of transmission in the second wave. India’s overall death toll from Covid-19 has crossed 300,000, and though the daily infection rate is slowing down it is still adding hundreds of thousands of new cases in each 24-hour period.

The wedding came under a torrent of criticism as people on social media blasted the guests for not wearing masks and not following social distancing as much of the country struggles with the health crisis.



A DGCI official said: “We have de-rostered the crew and directed the airline to lodge a complaint against those not following Covid-19 appropriate behaviour with relevant authorities. We will take strict action.”

The official said that the airline has been directed to lodge a complaint against the guests at the wedding for not following Covid rules.

Madurai airport director S Senthil Valavan said the airport authorities were unaware of the mid-air wedding but they knew the chartered flight was booked from Madurai.

Indian air carrier Spicejet also said that they were unaware of the actual intentions of their client and the flight was booked for the purpose of “post-wedding joyride.”

"The client was clearly briefed on Covid guidelines to be followed and denied permission for any activity to be performed on board,” said SpiceJet in a statement.

“The agent and the guest passengers were briefed in detail, both in writing as well as verbally, on social distancing and safety norms to be followed as per Covid guidelines both at the airport and on board the aircraft throughout the journey," it added.

The couple was called out on social media and said it can turn out to be a super spreader event.



https://sg.news.yahoo.com/indian-couple-charter-entire-flight-143339381.html

 

[Cottonmouth]

Imagine the filthy stench???
I hope the whole plane explodes and all the shitskins die.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Indian couple rent Spicejet plane for Covid-19 lockdown-busting mid-air wedding​

A video of on-board celebrations posted on social media show people with flowers around their necks and taking selfies.PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM TWITTER

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NEW DELHI (AFP) - An Indian couple chartered a passenger jet to stage a mid-air wedding that hijacked coronavirus restrictions by taking more than 160 guests, reports said Monday (May 24).


India's civil aviation authority has ordered an investigation and suspended the crew of the jet, officials said.
Because of a brutal new coronavirus wave - that saw India's death toll pass 300,000 on Monday - most states only allow 50 guests at weddings, but 161 friends and family of the newlyweds were on the jet on Sunday.

The couple, who have not been named, were married as the Spicejet plane flew over the historic Meenakshi Amman temple on its way from Madurai to Bangalore, the Hindustan Times newspaper said.

Film and photos of the on-board celebrations were posted on social media. They show people with flowers around their necks and taking selfies, but could not be immediately verified by AFP.

In breach of civil aviation rules, hardly any of them are wearing masks and social distancing rules are blatantly ignored.

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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has told Spicejet to take action against the newlyweds and their guests, reports said. All could be banned from taking passenger flights.

"The agent and the guest passengers were briefed in detail, both in writing as well as verbally, on social distancing and safety norms to be followed as per Covid guidelines both at the airport and on board the aircraft throughout the journey," a Spicejet spokesman told Indian media.

"Despite repeated requests and reminders, the passengers did not follow Covid guidelines and the airline is taking appropriate action as per rules," the official added.
Indian couple ties knot mid-flight amid Covid-19 lockdown

Several states have imposed tough lockdowns over the past six weeks as India suffers a devastating coronavirus wave that has seen more than 120,000 deaths.
With more than 26 million cases now recorded, Indian hospitals have been overwhelmed and experts say the toll is certainly much higher.

 

[Leongsam]

The case numbers per million are very low in India so there is no reason to cower in fear. It's good to see them enjoying their lives without a care in the world.

Here's the graphics to put things in the correct perspective. As you can the infection rate in India is pretty low.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

I pity the fool who believes in govt figures!

Doubts surround India's official Covid-19 death toll​

Experts say the official quarter-million death count is hugely underreported.PHOTO: REUTERS

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NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's coronavirus death toll passed 250,000 on Wednesday (May 12) but comparisons of official data with those from people on the front lines suggested the true number is several times higher.
Across the vast nation, the devastating Covid-19 wave has overwhelmed hospitals with patients and crematoriums with bodies, and many coronavirus deaths are not being properly recorded as such.

Experts say the official quarter-million death count is hugely under-reported.
"Even three to four times would be an underestimate," Mr Anant Bhan, an independent health policy and bioethics researcher, told AFP.
Harrowing images from overwhelmed crematoriums, graveyards and even makeshift funeral pyres have highlighted the scale of the crisis.
Bodies of suspected Covid-19 victims have also been seen floating down the holy Ganges river.

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The discrepancies appear particularly stark in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
In Rajkot, in the west of the state, the official death toll between April 1-23 was 154, yet the city's own health officials put it at 723.
And in Bharuch, the official count for the same period was just 23 but there were 600 funerals.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani insisted that the state was following guidelines from the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Those say only deaths directly caused by Covid-19 can be recorded as such, but not fatalities triggered by co-morbidities - when a patient had heart problems and dies of cardiac arrest, for instance.

Even before the pandemic, just 22 per cent of the nearly 10 million annual deaths in India were medically certified, and experts say the spike in funerals points to the same happening with Covid-19 fatalities.

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'Massive under-reporting'​

The surge has pushed the Aishbagh Burial Ground in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh state, to the brink.
Mr Hafiz Abdul Mateen from the graveyard told AFP it handled four to five burials a day before the pandemic.
"Today, 45 bodies of Covid victims have been buried here," he said.

"We've increased the number of gravediggers but that's also not enough as these men are getting tired and falling sick."
The official figures for deaths in some other states, including Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, also do not align with the number of funerals.
Media reports have also suggested that the official numbers for the capital New Delhi also fall well short of the reality.

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"Our estimate is 50 per cent of Covid-19 deaths are not registered by the government," Mr Jitender Singh Shanty, in charge of one of Delhi's 26 crematoriums, told AFP.

Health economist and researcher Rijo M. John described the situation as a "battle for data, data sharing and transparency".

But a spokesman for India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party denied allegations of undercounting or political motivations behind the mismatch in fatality numbers.
"It is not possible for anyone to hide the numbers in this age and time," Mr R.P. Singh told AFP.
Despite the assurances, some are not convinced.

"There is massive under-reporting of deaths and cases," said college student Sonalika Sahay, 22.
"The government is saying the positivity rate is coming down and the situation is improving. How can it be possible when corpses are being dumped in rivers in dozens?"

 

[Leongsam]

Even if the death rate is 4x the official figures it still shows that India is doing far better than the USA.

See for yourself:

 

[capamerica]

The case numbers per million are very low in India so there is no reason to cower in fear. It's good to see them enjoying their lives without a care in the world.

Here's the graphics to put things in the correct perspective. As you can the infection rate in India is pretty low.

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Wrong. Again. Lets see that makes it 0 for 269 tries, all failed

 

[capamerica]

Even if the death rate is 4x the official figures it still shows that India is doing far better than the USA.

See for yourself:

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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 270 tries, all failed

the endgame are deaths, not cases.

 

[Leongsam]

Wow I just saw the stats that compare South America with India and I have to say that the SA variant is definitely far worse than the Indian variant because cases are soaring there while the numbers in India are falling rapidly.

 

[capamerica]

Wow I just saw the stats that compare South America with India and I have to say that the SA variant is definitely far worse than the Indian variant because cases are soaring there while the numbers in India are falling rapidly.

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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 271 tries, all failed

https://science.thewire.in/health/w...eady-died-of-covid-murad-banaji-karan-thapar/

Watch | ‘1 Million Indians May Have Already Died of COVID’​

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‘Each Burning Pyre Is a Screeching Horror’ – Notes From India’s COVID Frontline​

Karan Thapar and Murad Banaji. Photo: The Wire
A senior lecturer in mathematics at London’s Middlesex University, who has been closely tracking the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in India since its start in March 2020, believes that 80% of India’s COVID-19 deaths are missing and have not been picked up by the official death count. As of May 8, the official death count is just over 238,000 and Murad Banaji says this means that the unrecorded deaths will be five times greater, putting the total death count (official and unrecorded deaths combined) at one million, if not more.

In a 33-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Banaji also spoke about estimates by Indian and foreign institutions regarding how the death toll will increase in the coming months. He said an estimate by the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, predicting 404,000 official recorded deaths by mid-June, could very well be right and he does not believe it’s exaggerated.
Commenting on two estimates done by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Washington, the first predicting 1,018,879 deaths by the end of July and a very recent one (released days ago) predicting 1.4 million deaths by September, Banaji pointed out that the IHME estimates include both official and unrecorded deaths and, second, the IHME believes that unrecorded deaths will be three times greater than recorded ones.
It’s worth mentioning that IHME claims that by September, when it expects India’s death toll to be 1.4 million, it will be almost 500,000 more than what the US death toll will be at that point. By September, the IHME expects the US death toll to reach 949,000. Currently, according to the CDC, it’s just over 561,000.
In the interview to The Wire, Banaji also explains why India’s COVID-19 death count is so poor and also why it’s not easy to estimate the Indian death count by calculating excess deaths, a practice that is quite common in Britain and Europe.
This is a paraphrased precis of Murad Banaji’s interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire. Although recounted from memory, it is not inaccurate. Please see the full interview to appreciate the many different points made by Banaji. This precis has primarily focussed on his estimate of the total death count (official and unrecorded) as of May 8.

 

[Balls2U]

https://theindependent.sg/indian-ai...r-in-flight-wedding-ceremony-with-160-guests/

 

[Balls2U]

 

[nayr69sg]

Idea for SIA.

Become wedding venue.

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

n we still donate to Yeendeer.................................................................

 

[kelvin]

They have only themselves to blame for the shit (covid) they are facing.

 

[laksaboy]

n we still donate to Yeendeer.................................................................

Sinkies are suckers for sob story crowdfunding, domestic and abroad. Sichuan earthquake, 2004 tsunami, Huang Na's funeral etc. Easy to con, easier to re-con.

 

[batman1]

IF the wedding flight landed at Changi,S'pore would welcome them with a lion dance and fire crackers !

 

[bobby]

When the plane crash...then no need covid test liao.

 

[Cottonmouth]

The plane should be shot down.

 

[zhihau]

IF the wedding flight landed at Changi,S'pore would welcome them with a lion dance and fire crackers !

we are not admitting these South Asians now right?