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Towplane-Baron accident
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 |
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