DID SAI BABA SAVE A PASSENGER JET FROM DITCHING IN THE OCEAN?
The alleged 'aeroplane miracle' over the South Atlantic by Sai Baba is still propagated as genuine on the Internet and within the Sai movement, though it has been exposed as sheer falsification. It was thoroughly investigated by Dr. Leonardo Gutter, the head of the Sathya Sai Organisation in South America (Central Coordinator), who replied to an e-mail from me at the time with the information that the aircraft and air hostess were completely unknown by any airline operating there in the period in question. Nor was anyone found who had been on such a flight and the source of the photo and of the whole account were also untraceable.
Nonetheless, for example, the Sai follower in Denmark , Lidvin Virkesdal (who was living on inducing and conducting visitors to see Sai Baba) spoke of this photograph as proof of a miracle to his clients on film in the Danish National Broadcasting team's hour-long documentary 'Seduced by Sai Baba' (shown on TV since 2002 in at least 5 countries so far).
SAI BABA PREVENTS AN AIRCRAFT CRASH
In the year 1995 an airplane occupied with passengers flew over South America, when the engine suddenly suspended. The airplane lost rapidly at height and leaned in the dive dangerously to the side. The pilot knew that a venezuelische hostess on board was, which in Sai Baba believed. He began to call: "request your Guru to take us out of this misfortune!" The hostess had expressed hardly the name Sai Babas, when its shape appeared suddenly direct in the sky before the cockpit. At the same time the airplane won again at height and the engine started again. The feature of Sai Baba visibly remained after the incident still further 20 minutes in the sky - during this time the venezuelische hostess took up the photo of the feature, visible on this side. The airplane achieved its goal without further obstacles. |
Peggy Mason was a very uncritical writer and editor of a Sai Baba magazine she published. She reproduced without criticism all manner of hearsay without checking her sources. This I know from having discussed it with her when my wife and I visited her and her husband, Ron Laing, in 1987 in their house at Tunbridge Wells.See a fuller and more thorough analysis here
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