Reporter cites “flux capacitator” as cause of actual plane crash

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Earlier this week, Kathryn Burcham of Boston 25 reported on a small plane crash
at the Cranland Airport in Hanson, Massachusetts. In the report, she claimed the
20-year-old pilot Jacob Haselden told her the crash was the result of a
defective “flux capacitator,” which sounds like a butchering of “flux capacitor”
a.k.a. the made-up thing from Back To The Future. While everyone on Twitter was
getting a good laugh at Burcham’s expense, some tried to deduce what the pilot
may have actually been talking about.

https://twitter.com/TomPodolec/statu...34118182637568

“I am guessing the pilot really said flux gate compass,” one user suggested,
building off the assumption that Burcham either misheard Haselden or heard the
word “flux” and filled in the rest based on something else she’d heard before.
In a later report to 7 News Boston, Haselden made no mention of flux-anything
and claimed he had “difficulties with the engine” before being forced to make an
emergency landing.

There’s always the chance the 20-year-old pilot was just been messing with
Burcham, and wanted to see if he could sneak a movie reference into a news
report without anyone noticing. But we’d like to think that Haseleden was
telling the truth and the real reason for the crash was that he was attempting
to travel back in time, perhaps to the night of his parent’s first date or to
some less compelling point in time like, let’s say, the old west.




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