Idiotic News Reporters

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says...


Yes he is a pilot, and he owns a '92 Mooney Ovation:

Name: : BLOOMBERG, MICHAEL RUBENS
Airman's Address : 17 E 79TH ST
NEW YORK, NY, 10021-0101
FAA Region : Eastern
Date of Medical : May, 2005
Class of Medical : 3
Expiration of Class 3 : May, 2007
Airman Certificates : Private Pilot
Airplane Single and Multi Engine Land
Rotorcraft Helicopter
Instrument Airplane




GOOD! - we can hope that's a strong voice to counter the inevitable cries to
"do something" - like closing the NYC VFR corridors permanently.

You can't really blame the press for being all over it. They are always
desperate for something to report, and the crash really did produce more smoke
and fire than many of us might have imagined.

I'm hoping the Sports Star status of the victim will help to "de-villainize"
the whole thing in the general public's mind, and divert some attention away
from the "dangerous GA" theme.

GF

Greg Farris wrote:
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snipped poor Michael's information

I'm hoping the Sports Star status of the victim will help to "de-villainize"
the whole thing in the general public's mind, and divert some attention away
from the "dangerous GA" theme.

No, it makes it worse. GA killed a "celebrity".

"Emily" wrote in message
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Greg Farris wrote:
In article ,

snipped poor Michael's information

I'm hoping the Sports Star status of the victim will help
to "de-villainize" the whole thing in the general public's
mind, and divert some attention away from the "dangerous GA"
theme.

No, it makes it worse. GA killed a "celebrity".

What this accident did is bring GA to the public's attention. The 99.9% of
the public that does not deal with GA never really thinks about GA until
something like this happens to bring it to their attention. However, once
their attention is focused on the subject then they start to wonder why
"these little planes" can just fly whenever and wherever they want with no
restrictions.

The problem we are going to have from this accident is that Boyer and others
are going to say that GA is no threat. Yet, the public has just seen an
apartment complex on fire from a little plane "slamming" into it. Now that
they are thinking about the subject someone is going to start wondering what
would happen if the plane had been full of explosives and the target was
some public gathering. Expect people to start postulating on the
destructive power of a VLJ fully loaded with explosives. I doubt if Boyer
is going to be able to pull his magic over this crash. At the very least,
the DC no-fly area will increase in size, and maybe other cities will be
included.

Jon Kraus wrote:
Yes he is a pilot, and he owns a '92 Mooney Ovation:


I don't think that's the same guy. Mayor Bloomberg owns a Falcon 900.
It flew into Bridgeport, CT (BDR) once or twice while I worked there in
operations. It's registered in the Bahamas - I doubt he'd own a Mooney.

You are incorrect... He owns a 1992 Mooney Bravo tail # N504MB. No soup
for you!! ;-)

Jon Kraus
'79 Mooney 201
4443H @ UMP

Kingfish wrote:
Jon Kraus wrote:

Yes he is a pilot, and he owns a '92 Mooney Ovation:



I don't think that's the same guy. Mayor Bloomberg owns a Falcon 900.
It flew into Bridgeport, CT (BDR) once or twice while I worked there in
operations. It's registered in the Bahamas - I doubt he'd own a Mooney.

Jon Kraus wrote:
You are incorrect... He owns a 1992 Mooney Bravo tail # N504MB. No soup
for you!! ;-)


Gee, lucky for me I don't like soup G Interesting pairing, a Falcon
900 and Mooney. Probably because of his understanding of aviation,
Mayor Bloomberg hasn't been screaming for TFRs over NYC - Unlike some
other asswipe mayor of another large midwest U.S. city...

Jon Kraus wrote:
Yes he is a pilot, and he owns a '92 Mooney Ovation:

Name: : BLOOMBERG, MICHAEL RUBENS

Airman Certificates : Private Pilot
Airplane Single and Multi Engine Land
Rotorcraft Helicopter
Instrument Airplane


Wow!! Fixed and rotor!

Very cool.

He is a billionaire and can afford it.




"B A R R Y" wrote in message
m...
| Jon Kraus wrote:
| Yes he is a pilot, and he owns a '92 Mooney Ovation:
|
| Name: : BLOOMBERG, MICHAEL RUBENS
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| Airman Certificates : Private Pilot
| Airplane Single and Multi
Engine Land
| Rotorcraft Helicopter
| Instrument Airplane
|
|
| Wow!! Fixed and rotor!
|
| Very cool.

"Ron Snipes" wrote in message .. .
: After hearing all the speculation on the news today regarding the aircraft
: that hit the building in NY, I was watching the press conference Mayor
: Bloomburg was doing around 5:30pm. Some female reporter asked if the Flight
: Data Recorder had been found yet? (I'm not bashing female reporters!)
:
: Mayor Bloomburg handled it professionally, and stated that an airplane of
: that size would not have a flight data recorder.
:
: They are all trying to get on the air First...who cares if the info was
: bogus. First it was supposed to be a helicopter.
:
: I have spent 25 years in TV at local stations and a Video & Film Production
: Company, so I'm aware of the problem.
: Ron
:
:

I like the sensational word that all were using...raining debris and fire on the ground...flames leaping from the
windows...smoke billowing out...

".Blueskies." wrote:

"Ron Snipes" wrote in message .. .
: After hearing all the speculation on the news today regarding the aircraft
: that hit the building in NY, I was watching the press conference Mayor
: Bloomburg was doing around 5:30pm. Some female reporter asked if the Flight
: Data Recorder had been found yet? (I'm not bashing female reporters!)
:
: Mayor Bloomburg handled it professionally, and stated that an airplane of
: that size would not have a flight data recorder.
:
: They are all trying to get on the air First...who cares if the info was
: bogus. First it was supposed to be a helicopter.
:
: I have spent 25 years in TV at local stations and a Video & Film Production
: Company, so I'm aware of the problem.
: Ron
:
:

I like the sensational word that all were using...raining debris and fire on the ground...flames leaping from the
windows...smoke billowing out...

Was any of that *not true*? From the pictures and video that I've seen, it sure appears to have been true. If you
were a reporter, what descriptive words would you have been using to describe what was going on?