Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg fabricated a declare that she was planning to take an Asiana Airways flight that ended up crash-landing in San Francisco greater than a decade in the past, killing 3 and injuring practically 200, in keeping with one among her ex-subordinates.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, who labored underneath Sandberg for six years as director of public coverage when the corporate was generally known as Fb, alleged in her new memoir that CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s former No. 2 “lie[d] about narrowly missing” Asiana Airways Flight 214.
“People don’t lie about narrowly missing plane crashes, do they?” Wynn-Williams wrote in her memoir titled “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.”
“Why would she? It’s not like she needs attention.”
Wynn-Williams wrote: “I never see Sheryl the same way after that.”
The San Francisco-bound flight took off from Incheon Worldwide Airport close to Seoul, South Korea, on July 6, 2013 with 307 folks on board.
The airplane crash-landed at San Francisco Worldwide Airport after the pilots mismanaged the plane’s method. The Boeing 777-200ER was flying too low and too sluggish because it tried to land.
Emergency responders arrived shortly, and most passengers have been in a position to evacuate earlier than the hearth unfold.
Nonetheless, three folks died, together with one who was run over by a rescue car within the aftermath. A complete of 187 passengers have been injured, with many struggling spinal and head accidents.
In a Fb submit revealed shortly afterward that day, Sandberg claimed that she, alongside together with her household and a number of other Fb colleagues, had initially deliberate to take the flight.
“We switched to United so we could use miles for my family’s tickets,” she wrote.
“Our flight was scheduled to come in at the same time, but we were early and landed about 20 minutes before the crash.”
Sandberg posted a number of Fb updates to reassure her followers that she and her touring companions have been unhurt. She additionally shared that David Eun, a good friend and government at Samsung Electronics, had been on the Asiana flight however was secure.
“Serious moment to give thanks,” she wrote.
Her submit shortly gained traction, surpassing 3,000 likes throughout the first hour.
However Wynn-Williams, writer of the lately launched e book “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” stated that Sandberg’s submit was not true.
In her memoir, she wrote: “I flip through the news and see reports that Sheryl, [Facebook’s then-director of global communications] Debbie [Frost], and others on our team were supposed to be on that flight.”
In keeping with Wynn-Williams, Fb staffers realized of this by Sandberg’s submit. She then referred to as Frost.
Within the e book, Frost is quoted as saying that Sandberg’s submit was “totally weird” as a result of “Sheryl always flies United” and “we never considered Asiana.”
“I don’t know why she posted it,” Frost is quoted as telling Wynn-Williams. “I don’t know why she tagged all of us [in the Facebook post].”
Frost referred The Publish to her Threads social media account the place she wrote: “While I appreciate everyone’s perspective is different, a bunch of the stories are exaggerated or just didn’t happen.”
A spokesperson for Meta and Sandberg declined to remark.
Wynn-Williams’ e book incorporates different salacious claims. In keeping with the previous Meta worker, Sandberg as soon as had a private assistant spend $13,000 on lingerie for her and her boss whereas on a visit to Europe.
Throughout a personal jet flight, a pajama-clad Sandberg invited Wynn-Williams to “come to bed” — a proposal that the subordinate declined, in keeping with the e book.
Wynn-Williams additionally wrote that she witnessed Sandberg and her assistant, Sadie, sleeping in one another’s laps and stroking one another’s hair on highway journeys.
The writer additionally accused one other Meta government, Joel Kaplan, of sexually harassing her. The corporate stated it launched an in depth inside investigation which cleared Kaplan.
