Towplane-Baron accident

It appears that the TV reporters eyewitness may have actually only been an earwitness. Additional investigation reports that he heard the crash then looked over and saw it. I thought I heard him say that the first time the TV station played the interview. I never heard it after that. They must have edited it. Of course, they were still playing the original report last I saw.

On Sunday, February 23, 2014 4:47:14 PM UTC-5, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 4:41:00 PM UTC-5, wrote:

I asked them nicely to review the facts and only report the facts.

I also pointed out their 4 month error on the flight plan.

So far, they have not changed anything.



You are dealing with the media.

To get their attention requires a baseball bat...

Do we have someone at the SSA who is designated to deal with media & accidents? Perhaps we should?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-glider.html

This story, with the BOLD headline, "3 killed in Georgia plane crash as aircraft 'tried to avoid hitting a glider" is now being distributed worldwide via outlets as large as DailyMail UK.

This is out of control if the facts are as incredibly different as they are reporting. This is very damaging to the sport of soaring for sure.

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:30:33 -0800, Sean F (F2) wrote:

This is out of control if the facts are as incredibly different as they
are reporting. This is very damaging to the sport of soaring for sure.

I can't help wondering if it is common practise in the USA for an airport
with intersecting runways to have both active at the same time?


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In article "Sean F (F2)" writes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-glider.html

This story, with the BOLD headline, "3 killed in Georgia plane crash as
aircraft 'tried to avoid hitting a glider" is now being distributed
worldwide via outlets as large as DailyMail UK.

This is out of control if the facts are as incredibly different as they
are reporting. This is very damaging to the sport of soaring for sure.

Why? What did the glider operation do wrong?

One thing you may learn, as you go through life, is that in almost any
event where you know the actual story, you will see that the story published
in the media is wrong, frequently in extreme ways.

Another thing is that witnesses are generally of no credibility.

In this case, we recognize that there is no practice called "shoot
instrument approach". It gives us a clue that the writer didn't know
much about aviation.

One might get a correction published, but wouldn't you rather rely on
the very short memory of the collective population?

Alan

At 08:56 24 February 2014, Alan wrote:
In article "Sean F (F2)" writes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-glider.html

This story, with the BOLD headline, "3 killed in Georgia plane crash as
aircraft 'tried to avoid hitting a glider" is now being distributed
worldwide via outlets as large as DailyMail UK.

This is out of control if the facts are as incredibly different as they
are reporting. This is very damaging to the sport of soaring for sure.

Why? What did the glider operation do wrong?

One thing you may learn, as you go through life, is that in almost any
event where you know the actual story, you will see that the story
published
in the media is wrong, frequently in extreme ways.

Another thing is that witnesses are generally of no credibility.

In this case, we recognize that there is no practice called "shoot
instrument approach". It gives us a clue that the writer didn't know
much about aviation.

One might get a correction published, but wouldn't you rather rely on
the very short memory of the collective population?

Alan

Politicians oft refer to the 24 hour news cycle. You generally only
increase an item of news beyond 24 hours if you have something interesting
to add, often far wiser to let the story die of starvation

Lagrange-Calloway airport in Georga is an uncontrolled airport, meaning no
control tower. At those, there is no active runway but more a preferred
runway which is used by consensus based upon wind or other conditions.
There is nothing to preclude a pilot from using a runway different from what
everyone else is using.

At Moriarty, NM, we routinely launch gliders on Rwy 26 for convenience even
with a 15 kt cross wind or with a slight tail wind due to more runway
available to the west than to the east. Regular power traffic will use Rwy
18-36 when we have a high crosswind, but, having no towout gear for our
Grobs, we use 8-26 until the wind gets too high and then we shut down. I've
towed visiting gliders on Rwy 18 and then landed on 26 to tow local gliders.
When crossing runways are in use, we use common courtesy and right of way
rules to avoid collisions.

"Shooting an approach" is a common slang term for executing an instrument
approach.

"Don Johnstone" wrote in message
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At 08:56 24 February 2014, Alan wrote:
In article "Sean F (F2)" writes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-glider.html

This story, with the BOLD headline, "3 killed in Georgia plane crash as
aircraft 'tried to avoid hitting a glider" is now being distributed
worldwide via outlets as large as DailyMail UK.

This is out of control if the facts are as incredibly different as they
are reporting. This is very damaging to the sport of soaring for sure.

Why? What did the glider operation do wrong?

One thing you may learn, as you go through life, is that in almost any
event where you know the actual story, you will see that the story
published
in the media is wrong, frequently in extreme ways.

Another thing is that witnesses are generally of no credibility.

In this case, we recognize that there is no practice called "shoot
instrument approach". It gives us a clue that the writer didn't know
much about aviation.

One might get a correction published, but wouldn't you rather rely on
the very short memory of the collective population?

Alan

Politicians oft refer to the 24 hour news cycle. You generally only
increase an item of news beyond 24 hours if you have something interesting
to add, often far wiser to let the story die of starvation

At LGC, 3-21 is the designated glider ops runway.
13-31 has the ILS and gets most of the power traffic.
Both runways are often used together very safely with constant radio contact.

Tim
1FL
Occasional LGC pilot



On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:34:28 PM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
Lagrange-Calloway airport in Georga is an uncontrolled airport, meaning no

control tower. At those, there is no active runway but more a preferred

runway which is used by consensus based upon wind or other conditions.

There is nothing to preclude a pilot from using a runway different from what

everyone else is using.

I can't answer. I did contact the State Governor and Regional Director. Filled them in with know details and told them they could have anyone at SSA contact me, that they felt needed briefing.

On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:16:56 PM UTC-5, Sean F (F2) wrote:
Do we have someone at the SSA who is designated to deal with media & accidents? Perhaps we should?