Air Warehouse Crashes Into an Apartment Complex

As of this report, there are four known fatalities, with many injured and many more still trapped beneath the wreckage. Due to GPS tracking and cameras all the residents near the site of the accident were identified. All the people under the rubble are located and accounted for. There have been fatalities, but no one is missing. A City of London representative said today: ‘in light of this tragedy, we must remember that surveillance is saving lives.’  He also used it as an opportunity to remind everyone that personal body locators save lives and encouraged everyone to install them if they did not do it already. The crew was able to prioritize the severely injured using the health data transmitted by their personal locators from under the rubble.

Rumors that the warehouse lost control after being hijacked were rejected by the MET Commissioner today. The operative who was remotely supervising the warehouse at the time of the crash has blamed bad weather - the Azure corporation has already filed a lawsuit against the weather office for failing to do a proper short-term wind forecast. 

In turn, the City of London has filed its own lawsuit against the Azure corporation, alleging malpractice. They claim that the operative was tasked with supervising the warehouse after only 2 weeks of training. These allegations have been firmly denied by the Azure corporation, and the whereabouts of the pilot now are unknown, his transmitter is off. Many believe he has been sent to a mandatory vacations by Azure to avoid questioning. 

There are some who will feel bittersweet this morning - after all residents in the area have campaigned for months to remove the air warehouse from Hyde Park: “not only does it look ugly,” a local homeowner told us, “but it casts shade on the park all year long. The plants in the community garden never do well anymore. My roses never fully bloom!” Struggling plants should be the least of these residents' concerns this morning, however. Hyde Park is once again in full sunlight as emergency services pull the wounded from the neighboring apartment complex that has been reduced to rubble. Many of the survivors seem unfazed, however, being pulled out of their apartments still connected to their V.R. sets. 

Azure will undoubtedly contest paying in full for damages, just as they have avoided paying commercial property tax. For years now they have claimed that their air warehouses cannot be listed as property due to inhabiting airspace, and any argument raised in Westminster has been shouted down by Azure -backed M.Ps. But surely even Azure cannot escape this tragedy tarnishing their public image, no matter how polished their P.R. is.  

For the residents complaining about the delay in shipping, Azure has announced a secondary air warehouse will arrive over Hyde Park this evening, less than 24 hours since the incident. “Rest assured,” a spokesman of Azure told us, “it’s business as usual for us!”