A SriLankan Airlines‘ pilot self made porn star style selfie video currently going viral on the internet could have serious repercussions to flight and passenger safety.
An aviation expert speaking to Colombo Telegraph said: “A full analysis of the co-pilot’s mental state needs to be evaluated. There are many questions that require to be answered by him. If in the event a third party had posted this video, then there will be embarrassment attached to it. Who knows, like the famous German Wings pilot he may decide to take some drastic measures when he is up there in the sky with many innocent lives on board. It is recommended that he is grounded immediately.”
A close friend and colleague of the pilot speaking on condition of anonymity said “His current mental state is at a very low ebb after his wife got to know about this episode. He is currently in hiding after arriving from his last flight as his father-in-law and other relatives are looking for him”.
Two porn star style selfie videos engaging staff of SriLankan Airlines one performing a sexual act and another where a Flight Stewardess is explicitly exposing her body in full are currently going viral over the internet.
The two videos made separately exposes the co-pilot who reported his commander Capt. Upendra Ranaweera for being drunk in Frankfurt recently. In that particular video the co-pilot is filmed engaging in a sexual act with a fellow female SriLankan airlines’ staff. Colleagues of the Flight Stewardess speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed to Colombo Telegraph that she had made the video exclusively for her boy friend’s viewing pleasure.
The Flight Stewardess who is shown earlier in the video accepting a certificate in full uniform from SriLankan Airlines Head of Service Delivery Chanaka Olagama, tendered her resignation recently the moment the video clip started going viral.
All efforts to contact the Human Resources Department for a quote on this incident proved futile.
Klaua / September 24, 2016
Pls attach link
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Ben Hurling / September 24, 2016
At the end of the day, this is just another spicy extra-marital affair. Nothing more.
Millions pray silently for a similar encounter. Some take it a step further. This couple did it. 99% take their sexual fantasies to grave with them.
I feel sorry for the couple involved here. Most likely they will pay a highly disproportionate price for their adventure. In the age of the Internet.
With millions of holier than thou, envious hypocrites lecturing them. Hope they will manage to survive the pressure from our fakely puritanical society.
Cheers!
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sanchay / September 24, 2016
i fully agree with you Ben. Like you say most probably almost everyone who charge these two would wish to do the same act, if the situation allows them to do it. The “fake puritanical hypocrites” we are, you are absolutely right. The biggest mistake they did was to film the whole thing, it was a private and personal act and making a video was very foolish of them!
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Justice & Fairplay / September 25, 2016
Very well said, Ben Hurling. Feelings are mutual.
Amazing how CT found space for a story of this type. Where is the editorial responsibility to apply your own code of journalistic conduct?
You have hurt two people who have engaged in a private affair immeasurably. I think CT has let itself down very badly over this expose’.
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Leelawathie / September 24, 2016
why Srilanken pilots of all others ?
This is no good for lanken professionals at all.
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Burt / September 24, 2016
“This is no good for lanken professionals at all.”
This is subjective, may be other foreign airlines will now actively source for Sri Lankan stewardesses.
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Samuel Jayaweera / September 24, 2016
This is how [Edited out] administration abused it to core.
THESE ARE FACTS TAHT THE PROFESSIONALS WOULD NOT OVERSEE:
“Deputy Foreign Minister Harsha de Silva pointed out that the then government has spent just one million rupees before wasting 350 million US dollars for setting up the emptiest international airport in the world.
“We actually wanted to find out who actually did the feasibility study for the Mattala Airport. I wanted to know whether such a person exists,” de Silva told a gathering.
“So there were some Aviation officials and I asked them who carried out the feasibility study.”
“One person said Sir, I did it. I didn’t know how to react and I asked how much is the consultancy or feasibility study cost before you putting USD350mn in this project.”
“He said only one million and then I asked, one million? That’s all? One million dollars that you put?”
“He said No sir (laughing), one million rupees.”
De Silva said unfortunately in the end now we have the dubious record of having the emptiest international airport in the world.
“We want to be clear about what we do; we should have a vision; but in implementing or achieving it we have to use our brain,” he said.
“So we don’t dump a quarter billion dollars in some airport; we must ensure that what is the right place to put the airport.”
De Silva however said that since the airport is there, they have to do what they can do to utilize it to the maximum possible.
He added that the Bandaranaike International Airport is going for a second phase upgrade with new terminal and it will be competitive with other regional airports once that is completed.”
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Sinchuappu / September 26, 2016
Indifference has been promoted by the previous regime.
Not only pilots, even doctors or others in various professional bodies have no whatsoever the feeling that they should be highly repsonsible for what they are assigned.
If a pilot would have been found with the mentality in Europe soils, he would have immediately been called for an explaination….. pilots in general should be very cautious since they are responsible for thousands of human lives in their jobs. If pilots would have been not admitted as genuine, no airlines would earn credit from anyone.
This should be highly focused by all the pilots guilds of the earth.
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Peace Lover / September 24, 2016
Oh common CT you really have an axe to grind with Srilankan airlines dont you
These things happen and yes it morally wrong but thats something that should not be published all over,why are you trying hard to kill srilankan airlines?
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Burt / September 24, 2016
Are you saying based on your morals this is not news? What do you prefer CT publishes? Rants of the pure Sinhala Buddhist Ganasara.
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Peace Lover / September 24, 2016
@ Burt uncle yes I prefer to see your bosom pal Gnasara in full form than see a pilots video being shared and him losing his family
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Justice & Fairplay / September 25, 2016
Burt, this is not news. This is an invasion of the privacy of two persons, and that is where journalistic ethics come in. It may be all too much for you to understand but that’s all right. Even those in active journalism in this country will miss my point.
Selling papers or a news sheet through the dissemination of gossip and other peoples’ private lives is poor journalism. Very poor indeed. As I said, you wont agree, and so will a lot of other unthinking people.
Never mind.
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Burt / September 26, 2016
“This is an invasion of the privacy of two persons”
I think you have got it wrong not me. This is not invasion of privacy when the two involved were stupid enough to record the event and one party decided to share it with a third party. There is no other way this would have come out as there is no mention of hacking.
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vishvajith / September 24, 2016
Magey Ammo!
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johnjames / September 24, 2016
Your are world!!!!!
Close this airline Now.
Even the President flew Emirates! As does all MPs!!!!!!
A disgrace to a so called country!!
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johnjames / September 24, 2016
At Sri Lanakan airlines we now have introduced the first XXXXXXXX…. Your are world!!!!!cum and try……….
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Analyst / September 24, 2016
Danger in the Sky..
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Leon / September 24, 2016
So, the co-pilot who reported his superior makes a porn video? And no by-line to the article? Makes one wonder what kind of nonsense this article is.
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LankanBoy24 / September 24, 2016
What utter nonsense. How is it going viral online if it’s impossible to even find it online. And where is the logic in connecting filming a sex selfie with mental state… I’m that case all pornstars also need to be mentally evaluated.
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Burt / September 24, 2016
CT to protect its integrity should publish the link of this video. You cannot say its in ethical when one party to the video has already posted it on line.
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Sinhala_Man / September 24, 2016
“Going viral” probably means it is being exchanged on e-mail, and social media like Facebook. Sick. Why can’t people mind their own business?
These things may “always have happened” but stories of this nature are getting far too common. We are pampering (subsidising really) this airline and its employees fat too much. It is the business of the Airline Management to make sure that OUR money is wasted like this.
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Sinhala_Man / September 24, 2016
Typo: sorry!
The Airline Management must make sure our money is NOT wasted like this.
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Flying Bat / September 24, 2016
Oh dear so they have converted our national carrier in to the worlds first flying sex shop..Well done Chairman Ajith Dias and CEO Ratwatte.You guys are innovative indeed.Way to go boys.
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Burt / September 25, 2016
Flying kiss was old school and a thing of yesterday so they were innovative.
Due to lack of space I am sure they had an innovative pose straight from Kama Sutra.
:))
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Jagath Fernando / September 24, 2016
these things take place frequently in certain professions such as tourism, airlines and hotel trade etc.
I have no issue as long as it did not happen at 35,000 ft which would have placed the passengers lives at risk.
Similar incidents happened at Sri Lankan airlines 30 years ago even at the inception and will happen now and will continue to happen. Most of them are young boys and girls who may have had very little freedom during school going days and the new found freedom will result in such behavior.
Nothing much to be excited about other than the fact that the future of these young staff is ruined.
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vishvajith / September 25, 2016
Jagath, a voice of reason you are. The many who have ‘up voted’ your comments think likewise.
Cheers.
Vishvajith.
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Sven Le Grande / September 24, 2016
Starting feel a bit queazy about my SAL flight to London next month. If I supply my flight date can you arrange for the drinkers and sex-maniacs to be off-rota that day? That is assuming the flight takes place at all due to the present work-to-rule.
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Apur / September 24, 2016
Well, first they withdraw from whole of Europe so others can enjoy the business. Now staff issues on morality. Where is the Peacock heading? These episodes are manifestations of the poor leadership style in the airline. While other airlines are reporting huge increases in profits, our national airline with top people drawing millions of rupees monthly are making a huge mess of it. This is leadership paucity. Can they learn from other airlines in the region oh how to manage a business.
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Lone star / September 24, 2016
I really don’t think that he has to be in a mentaly down for looking at his video. This is a very clear picture that this is done to take revenge from the victim by the drunk backboneless captain or any of his back lickers who can’t except the fact that he was cought drunk 4 times the normal level and couldn’t fly . I’m sure there will be so many things happening in every industry and not only srilankan airlines. The german wings pilot may have had issues but I don’t relate this insidant as a step to a situation llike that. Our pilots are more caperbel of segregating personal with professional unlike some old alcoholic captains. As the national carrier of Srilanka we should be protecting the name and the image of our carrier and not put it down like this. This has nothing to do with anything else but revenge. I disagree with this and ask the authorities to take this off.
Care for srilankan. It is our national carrier Will
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Lone star / September 24, 2016
We can’t blame the airline management or the people involved in this video instead the perverts who encourage and post these kinds of videos. Im sure they must have done the same it’s just that no one bothered and was jobless to post any on the internet coz that is not the normal caliber of a normal human. For those who think that the airline should be closed coz of this shame on u. Atleast be proud that we do have an airline and we fly to many destinations and fr people who thinks it is a danger to fly srilankan u can take a ship lol.
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K.A. Sumanasekera / September 24, 2016
can anyone please send the link of this video?
much appreciated.
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Luis Samson / September 24, 2016
Why?
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Native Vedda / September 24, 2016
Luis Samson
“Why?”
He is planning to have a session on self actualization with himself every three minutes.
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AM / September 25, 2016
Sumansekara, come on. I thought you were a good guy.
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Ben Hurling / September 25, 2016
Dear Mr. K.A. Sumanasekera,
FYI, very high quality, soft tissues are now on sale at Boots, London.
Cheers!
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Justice & Fairplay / September 25, 2016
Sumanasekera you [Edited out], ask your Batalanda.
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Tharindu Gajadeera / September 24, 2016
What does it have to do with flight safety and passenger safety? Its completely a mud slinging campaign for what he did to do that irresponsible senior captain. After all it’s his personal life and it has no effect on his profession..
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Sanchay / September 24, 2016
it has so far to do with the safety of a flight, because our social structure make us to shame for such deeds and in Sri Lanka we are willing to commit suicide than in any other nation after South Korea. As though this would clear the “miss deeds”, succuming to the wrong social pressure.
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Jay / September 24, 2016
all these guys who are commenting are worse !!
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Ex UL crew / September 24, 2016
Clearly this has nothing to do with the safety of the airline but Colombo Telegraph trying to get cheap publicity through unethical journalism and have no regard for the “Humanity” element in journalism.
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Dingo / September 24, 2016
The serious issue here would be the mental state of the pilot now. If like CT says someone else had posted the video on the internet then he would have to face the music from his wife and it could end up in a messy divorce for him.Lose kids, lose money and then fly a plane in a mad mental state. May be the pilot needs help. Counselling or something on those lines. This is where the seriousness is what I think. Please search instances where pilots have gone on to crash planes due to being mentally imbalanced like one Egypt Air pilot before the German Wings pilot.
Bottom line is these guys and girls are crazy to film themselves and then see what has happened now?
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The Laughing Lebbe / September 24, 2016
[Edited out]
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The Laughing Lebbe / September 24, 2016
Sorry, CT, for that gaffe
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Kugan / September 24, 2016
This was mishandled by management.failed to protect the informer.now he is a vitim.
When he was drunk and caught.they shouldn’t reveal all the details.all they have to say is the security personnel in Germany got suspicious and breathalysed.end of it.
For the co pilot who informed them give appreciation and courage give rewards in confidential manner.
That’s why lot of crimes dont report to the officials.
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Udaya / September 24, 2016
If I want and if you like I can have sex with you. So does pilots, so does bankers and so does presidents!!!…. whats wrong????
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Goraka / September 25, 2016
Udaya says” “If I want and if you like I can have sex with you. So does pilots, so does bankers and so does presidents!!!…. whats wrong????”
MORALITY.
Imagine your daughter in the video!
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garawi / September 24, 2016
Wait a second ! Reading that this is the pilot who reported the other drunk pilot, it seems that this is a setup story to discredit this pilot for reporting the drunkard as the pilot’s association is trying very hard to get the drunk pilot off the hook! Beware! We do not know the reality and there is no such youtube video mentioned herein!
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Top Stuff / September 24, 2016
CT is correct in not divulging names and also not sharing the video link. I don’t think CT will post the link. But I am sure CT has it if not they wont publish a story like this. CT’s angle is safety from the headline and the repercussions attached to it. No wonder old pervs like the Chairman Ajit Dias hold on to such posts. Former Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe must have really had a field day in office.
This airline seriously needs an overhaul.
So far CT is the only medium that perhaps is not on the take from the airline. All other media organizations choose to stay mum regarding the rubbish that is taking place in the airline and they must be paid handsomely for it too.
Keep it up CT —-way to go man !
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Samuel Jayaweera / September 24, 2016
How come all these were no reported but today of all days ?
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Mother Lanka / September 24, 2016
CT, please don’t tarnish the image of our Nation. What is your logic behind this.? This is a private issue.
I think You are trying to take a personal revenge from your motherlanka. We have high regards for your website .
Do not repeat this type of stories. We are little disappointed with this story.
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Monara Kapothi / September 24, 2016
Hey Pilots Guild,you guys fought for your pilots to use the Buissness Class lounge at the expense of paying passenger’s convinience and discomfort.Now please fight for your pilots right to have sex 35,000 feet in the air.After all the poor chaps are stressed out isn’t it?Ya getting the stress out could lead to a safe flight too ha?
Our thanks to CT for highlighting the gongs on in SRILANKAN AIRLINES – YOUR SEXSHOP IN THE SKY.
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justice / September 24, 2016
Flight stewardesses’ romances are well portrayed in fiction.
This film of Tony Curtis romancing two of them is hilarious.
But in this age of pornography and electronic web recordings, this type of activity is dangerous, for the persons concerned.
This exposure is a personal problem of the pilot and stewardess concerned.
It will/should not affect their duties.
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DESHAPREMIYA / September 24, 2016
I AM SURE THESE PILOTS AND STEWARDESSS MAY HAVE LEARNT ALL THESE FROM THE FORMER BOSS WHO WAS HAVING A MERRY RIDE AT PEOPLES EXPENSE.
WHAT A SHAME WHERE HAVE ALL THE VALUES GONE. WE HAVE NOTHING BUT A KINKY SOCIETY
RELIGIONS WERE MOCKED DURING THE PREVIOUS REGIME WITH ALL AND SUNDRY BECOMING THIGS IN SAFFRON ROBES THANKS TO POLITICIANS. THEY DRESSED DRUG ADDICTS IN
SAFFRON ROBES AND BROUGHT THEM FOR PROTESTS.
THE RESPECT FOR CLERGY WENT DOWN.
THESE ARE RESULTS OF SUCH FOOLISH ACTS
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Anushka shamine / September 26, 2016
This woman in the video is not a flight stewardesses. She is a middle aged SriLankan airlines employee who works on ground. She is working at the Srilankan airlines office. It is revealed that these 2 had a relationship for years.
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Sammy / September 24, 2016
What are the words to type, to search this video on Youtube.
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T / September 24, 2016
What’s the big deal ?
This is part of the package , you morons !!
No difference if it’s Air lanka or any other ….
Move on dudes !!!
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f=ma / September 25, 2016
high time we release the CT sextape
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