[An Nahar] An Indonesian district chief got Dire RevengeĀ on an airline that refused to let him board a full flight by sending officials to block the runway and stop the plane landing, authorities said Monday.
Marianus Sae, head of Ngada district in the eastern island of Flores, wanted to get home quickly to Ngada from the city of Kupang on Timor island so that he could attend a meeting.
But state-owned Merpati Nusantara airlines refused to sell him a ticket for a flight to Turelelo Soa airport early on Saturday because it was full.
"It is outrageous," Sae was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe newspaper. "I begged for a ticket for five hours to fly to Ngada and their answer was: 'The flight is full'."
What part of that did he fail to understand?
The infuriated district chief ordered public order officers -- who have more limited powers than police and come under the authority of local governments -- to drive cars onto the runway and stop the plane landing, media reports said.
The handful of staff at the airport could not stop the blockade and the airport remained shut for several hours, officials said.
Merpati front man Riswanto Chendra Putra confirmed the plane was forced to turn back due to the blockade.
However he added that two of the plane's 56 seats had become available at the last minute -- but by then Sae had already bought a ticket to travel with another airline.
Transport ministry front man Bambang Ervan said the district chief had "tarnished the reputation of the aviation industry".
But he said the ministry had no plans to take legal action, adding such matters were the responsibility of the police.
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However he added that two of the plane's 56 seats had become available at the last minute
So, they lied, there were seats.
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North Korea's leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... was "very drunk" when he ordered the execution of two aides close to his purged uncle, according to Japanese newspaper reports.
The young leader ordered the execution of two aides after they reportedly failed to respond immediately to a request to hand over a profitable business to the military.
The two aides were close to Jang Song-thaek, Kim's uncle, who only weeks later was dramatically stripped of his powerful posts and executed in an effort by the leader to consolidate his grip on power.
The failure of Ri Ryong-ha, the first deputy director of the administrative department of the state's ruling Workers' Party, and Jang Su-gil, a deputy director in the same department, to respond quickly to his order reportedly left Kim "upset".
They were believed to be among at least eight aides from Jang's circle who were believed to have been executed in the run-up to his own execution this month, the Yomiuri Shimbun added.
As a result, the purging of Jang was reportedly predicted by the South Korean government, which apparently learnt of the executions of his aides via wiretapping conversations.
"Those who were close [to the two aides] were surprised by their execution, and made phone calls to their friends living abroad, and the South Korean government [spy agency] wiretapped their phone conversations," the newspaper said. "The South Korean government then concluded that the purge of Jang Song-thaek was inevitable, based on the testimony of people involved with the case."
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"Those who were close [to the two aides] were surprised by their execution, and made phone calls to their friends living abroad, and the South Korean government [spy agency] wiretapped their phone conversations,"
Sounds like more range time for the firing squad. You don't think Seoul would engage in a little disinformation gambit to thin the herd up north? Nah. I didn't think so.
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