{"id":168064,"date":"2016-09-24T00:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=168064"},"modified":"2016-09-24T17:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T11:42:45","slug":"srilankan-pilot-mentally-down-after-sex-selfie-video-goes-viral-passenger-safety-compromised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/srilankan-pilot-mentally-down-after-sex-selfie-video-goes-viral-passenger-safety-compromised\/","title":{"rendered":"SriLankan Pilot &#8216;Mentally Down&#8217; After Sex-Selfie Video Goes Viral; Passenger Safety Compromised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=SriLankan+Airlines&amp;x=11&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SriLankan Airlines<\/span><\/a>&#8216; pilot self made porn star style selfie video currently going viral on the internet could have serious repercussions to flight and passenger safety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SriLankan-airlines-porn-video-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-168068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SriLankan-airlines-porn-video--300x222.jpg\" alt=\"srilankan-airlines-porn-video\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SriLankan-airlines-porn-video--300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SriLankan-airlines-porn-video-.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An aviation expert speaking to Colombo Telegraph said: &#8220;A full analysis of the co-pilot&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A close friend and colleague of the pilot speaking on condition of anonymity said &#8220;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&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The two videos made separately exposes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Upendra+Ranaweera&amp;x=10&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">co-pilot who reported his commander Capt. Upendra Ranaweera<\/span><\/a> 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&#8217; staff.\u00a0Colleagues of the Flight Stewardess speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed to Colombo Telegraph that she had made the video exclusively for her boy friend&#8217;s viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>All efforts to contact the Human Resources Department for a quote on this incident proved futile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":168068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SriLankan Pilot &#039;Mentally Down&#039; 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