Article borrowed from Bruce Askham:
Now that the internet has had 24 hours to lose its mind over the Airlink flypast at DHL Stadium…
As a pilot, I thought it was magnificent.
Yes, it was LOW. That was rather the point.
But low does not automatically mean unsafe.
This was a planned, rehearsed and approved flypast, flown at around 150 knots and conducted within the altitude and speed parameters approved by the SACAA. Air Traffic Navigation Services was also involved in the planning and support.
And this wasn’t a couple of cowboys having a crack at it.
Each aircraft carried THREE senior Airlink captains, acting as commander, co-pilot and safety/technical officer. That is a serious amount of experience sitting up front.
What we watched was precision flying.
Two Embraers. Formation. Low level. Precise timing. A stadium packed with Springbok and All Black supporters. And a spectacular piece of aviation to kick off one of the greatest rivalries in world sport.
Was it close?
Hell yes.
Was there an incident?
No.
Was it some unplanned near-disaster requiring an internet investigation by every newly qualified Facebook aviation expert?
Also no. 📷
Airlink’s own recorded flight data confirms that both aircraft remained within the SACAA-approved and rehearsed safety parameters.
So perhaps we can stop manufacturing an accident that never happened and simply appreciate what we were privileged to see.
And thankfully, despite what another highly reliable Facebook image may suggest, the crews were not dreadlocked, doobie-smoking, “trust the vibes” cockpit philosophers. 📷
So no, Cheech and Chong were not flying the formation.
Thank you Airlink. That was something special.
May there be many more.
Oh, and the Boks won 33–26.
Lekker. 📷 #Flypast #Flover #Airlink #SouthAfrica #Rugby #Springbokke #SANZ #Crybabies #TIA
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Die boer Ken Baxter se keel is byna afgesny nadat hy in doringdraad vasgery het wat werkers glo by die ingang na sy plaas gespan het.
@moneillsf This is not racism. It is vengeance. When people are left isolated and abandoned by those entrusted to protect them, resentment and retaliation often follow. The real issue is the absence of support and accountability
You still don’t seem to grasp how wars against entire groups of people actually work.
Nelson Mandela didn’t personally plant the bombs. Steve Biko didn’t throw a single stone at a police Casspir. Julius Malema won't pull a trigger himself, and Cyril Ramaphosa will never swing a panga in the night. The leaders rarely do the killing. They don’t have to.
What they do is far more dangerous; they supply the moral justification, the slogans, the narrative that turns a human being into a legitimate target.
When Cyril speaks endlessly of “apartheid beneficiaries who still hoard the wealth,” of “historical redress that must be accelerated,” of “economic freedom in our lifetime” that somehow always excludes the White minority, he is not merely critiquing history; he is marking a category of people as perpetual enemies of justice.
When Julius screams “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer;” when he promises that land will be seized “one way or another,” he is not engaging in metaphor. He is giving permission.
History is brutally consistent on this point:
- The Hutu intellectuals who ran Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines never picked up a machete, but they spent months calling Tutsis “cockroaches” who had stolen the country. Eight hundred thousand died.
- The architects of the Holocaust wrote memoranda and gave speeches; the actual shooting was done by ordinary men who had been told, day after day, that Jews were a mortal threat to the nation.
- In Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s speeches about “settler farmers who stole our birthright” were followed by farm invasions, torture, and starvation. The old man himself never lifted a fist.
The pattern never changes. First comes the relentless dehumanisation (“White monopoly capital,” “settler,” “colonialist of a special type”), then the insistence that an entire racial or ethnic group is the root of all suffering. Then comes the promise that violence against them is not crime, it is correction, it is justice, it is the final chapter of liberation.
And then ordinary people; desperate, angry, or simply greedy, hear those words and decide that pulling a trigger or swinging a blade no longer feels like murder. It feels like patriotism.
Of course not every listener becomes a killer. But every genocide, every pogrom, every wave of ethnic murder in history began with leaders who insisted they were only talking about justice, only demanding what was “stolen,” only speaking metaphorically.
The blood is on the hands that fire the gun, yes. But the guilt begins in the mouth that taught them the gun was righteous.
Good morning all Apartheid beneficiaries. Thanks for paying your rates, taxes and property bonds with the salaries you earn in an economy that keeps discriminating against you. Thanks for loving and building your country despite the “Apartheid” kak being shoved down your throats every day. Please have patience with these morons👇 this too shall pass.
@ChrisAnTi143@JoeBiden@CyrilRamaphosa@JZuma@charliekirk11 Would you really celebrate someone's death on social media? You see, this is the difference between a normal human being and these leftist's. A dead person cannot defend himself, he paid the highest price. Have some respect.