John Butler Involved In Mid-Air Scare
News posted Tuesday, August 31 2010 at 02:00 PM.
Related: John Butler Trio.
John Butler was told to put his head between his knees last night but it wasn’t for the usual reasons. (We mean yoga, you creeps.)
Butler and his trio were en route to South Australia when the Qantas jet they were travelling in had some trouble with its landing gear. All passengers, including Butler, his bandmates Nicky Bomba and Byron Luiters (the guys obscured in the press shot above) and members of Victoria’s cricket team, were told to get into the “brace” position after the jet's cockpit instrumentation reportedly sent incorrect signals to the pilot, ABC News reported today (August 31).
The plane eventually made a bumpy landing in front of waiting emergency services. “I met a number of the people afterwards and not surprisingly, they were pretty shaken up because we really thought we were going down without a front wheel and it would have been a fairly serious outcome,” one of the passengers, Professor Damien Kingsbury of Deakin University, told ABC News. “There were fire trucks everywhere, flashing lights, the whole catastrophe.”
A spokesperson from Butler’s Jarrah Records label said the singer would not be making any comment. The band are scheduled to perform at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre tonight.
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This is all well and good, but the lead singer of City Riots was held up at knife point in an Adelaide post office just the other day!
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does this guy still fuck kids?
BAM!
There was a John Butler sex scandal? Please tell!
Well I give up. Modern jets are just too hard to tamper with nowadays.
except for the total lack of any actual catastrophe
are you sure this guy's a professor? get the fact-checking team onto that one, thanks.
Musician involved in flight not crashing, stop the press!
the only reason we ran this story was so we could use the gag in the first line.
I am a coffee virgin.
josejones said 1 minute ago:
It was worth it. Once you think it, you can't unthink it.
''John Butler Involved In Mid-Air Scare'' - he was going to start playing one of his songs???
This site disgusts me.
haha ''gag'', i get it
Lady Gag Gag
I interviewed him for The Vine, published today. Topical!
http://www.thevine.com.au/music/interviews/john-butler-_-interview20100831.aspx
Are you interested in an interview with Hootie and the Blowfish for The Vine? PM me.
That was a superb byline, that one. Bravo!
WHY WON'T HE FUCKING DIE ALREADY?!?!?!?!?!?!?
In a strange way, I am actually relieved. While I would gain no small amount of personal satisfaction from hearing the news that Butler had met his end in an airborne fireball, I fear that, much like Jeff Buckley and Tupac, he would become even more annoying and inescapable in death than he ever was in life. I have no doubt there are countless hours of recordings of his interminable jam sessions just waiting to be thrust upon an unsuspecting public.
The first thing he thought of was his musical legacy.
You guys, a human being nearly died.
Allah akbar
If he cared so much about the environment he wouldn't be flying himself, band, crew and gear all over the country in the first place.
god to think he nearly became the buddy holly of the oz hippy funk-roots movement... i shudder to think of mural shrine they'd paint in byron bay and freo.
why the fuck are his band mates just sitting in the background like a couple of smiling twats? they don't get to sit upfront in the photo with John Butler?
He requested they be photographed IOGR (in order of groupie rights).
Next time on M + N: UV Race take a group dump, like the smell
you can hate someone's msuic as much as you like, but wishing them dead?
Incredible.