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Nov 21, 2023Liked by Sara Hammel

I nominate QANTAS or Virgin

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Thank you for your vote. I haven’t heard from any Qantas survivors but I did write awhile ago about their sexual harassment problem and I proceeded to get harassed by a bunch of anonymous male pilots on Twitter (cowards)

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Nov 16, 2023·edited Nov 16, 2023

I'm looking for a lawyer. i had no idea there were so many of us. None. A friend told me to Google its name and i found this. I worked with him in New York for a short time and he was soooo nice at first. Offered to drive me home. Knew I didn't have a car. Second time I let him drive me he asked to come inside and i thought nothing of it. and then.... I told people after. I didn't report him to the police because i knew they would blame me. I told managers. No one cared.

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A few of his friends still work at QANTAS. One who is a real piece of work is Shawn Golding. Still at the helm.

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This is all allegedly. He is entitled to the full presumption of innocence.

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why? even his own airline knows he did it and are paying off his victims with millions. People knew his predation was going on for years. Maybe you weren't as plugged into what was really going on at your own airline as you think you were.

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I was plugged in. Sten was a dear friend. You are twisting his playful happy nature into something wicked. In better times a handsome young pilot like Sten could engage in banter with a lady, ask her out or woo her without being accused of harassment or rape! I would love to know whether you as the author here have any ties to Airbus?

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Nov 17, 2023Liked by Sara Hammel

Preposterous. Airbus doesn’t want Flight 587/Sten Molin rehashed and mulled over by the media.They want it forgotten. Now you’re just grasping at straws.

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You want to posthumously convict a man of rape? I see the MeToo faction has arrived.

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I'm pretty sure I know who this is, and they're not male or a pilot. The overdramatic language ("wicked") is a dead giveaway. Plus, "handsome." Nope.

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Nov 17, 2023·edited Nov 17, 2023Author

No, but I do have a connection to the late rapist Sten Molin. Were you one of the pilots FAs tell me were also sexually harassing women on the job? That would explain your vociferous defense of harassment and assault. You still haven’t addressed why American is currently paying out millions to victims who you say don’t exist.

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yep, for that and other reasons, so much is hidden. That's why we're still here, plugging away, to make change one day at a time...

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Just wow. I mean the entitlement on show explains a lot. and now we can add paranoid to the list? Should someone of that mental state be in the cockpit with 259 lives in his hands?

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Nov 14, 2023Liked by Sara Hammel

Personally in my opinion, I think he was scared of wake turbulence. I don’t know why? He might have been trained to fear it or thought it would flip the plane?

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Funny. I wonder if some of what he did has been misinterpreted? He had that cheeky sense of humour and he was a lovable cuddly affectionate guy. I am not saying I don’t believe all this, but it just seems so wild.

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I do wonder if the underage girl he was raping misinterpreted what was happening to her? Also possibly the FA who he pushed into a hotel room on a layover and nearly suffocated her as he proceeded to rape her didn’t realize how lovable and cuddly he really was…

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Point taken. I can only speak from my own experience with him back in around 1997-1998. He did tell naughty jokes, he liked to pinch us on the bottom. He loved a hug or a kiss, but from my own perspective he was harmless, just affectionate and lonely after breaking up with a girlfriend. He asked me out. I said no. That was that. No retaliation. We remained friends till he died. As I say though that was my experience. I can’t speak for others.

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