"Out of fuel, out of hope: 'Help, I'm in the water'"

"Skywise" wrote in message

Reporters are soooooooooooooo stupid.

Careful with the generalizations. Many people say the same thing about
people who fly small airplanes or "jump from perfectly good aircraft."

-c
"If aircraft were perfect, there wouldn't be parachutes."

"gatt" wrote in
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"Skywise" wrote in message

Reporters are soooooooooooooo stupid.

Careful with the generalizations. Many people say the same thing about
people who fly small airplanes or "jump from perfectly good aircraft."

-c
"If aircraft were perfect, there wouldn't be parachutes."

I can count on one hand the number of reporters I see regularly
that actually seem to know what they are reporting about. If
I think real hard I might need my second hand.

But I won't get into a debate over it here, so this is my final
say on the subject.

Brian
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Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

Reporters are soooooooooooooo stupid.

Careful with the generalizations. Many people say the same thing about
people who fly small airplanes or "jump from perfectly good aircraft."

I can count on one hand the number of reporters I see regularly
that actually seem to know what they are reporting about.

Let me elaborate:

One guy mistook miles for feet, prompting the generalization: "Reporters
are so stupid."

The other guy vectored himself over hostile terrain and ran out of fuel,
prompting search and rescue crews to risk their own lives trying to fish him
out of the drink. Would it be fair to make the generalization "Pilots are
sooooo stupid?"

The reporter made a typo. The pilot made a compounded series of poor
decisions and died.
Hope that the insurance industry doesn't make the same sorts of
generalizations about general aviation.

-c