So fox puts up a picture of an Embraer, instead of a Bombardier...
Isn't there ANYBODY in these news orgs that knows a damn thing about flying??
I STILL remember sitting in the Bar at STL the day Valujet went in, with the woman talking about how old the aircraft were, while looking out the windows at TWA's oldest fleet in aviation at the time....
No.......but the rest of their coverage on other topics is probably accurate......
If you tune into NBC I'm sure they will dig up Bob Arnot to comment on the crash. He's a doctor with a pilot's license.
"Isn't there ANYBODY in these news orgs that knows a damn thing about flying??"
They are getting better, at lesst they didn't call it a Cessna!
Isn't there ANYBODY in these news orgs that knows a damn thing about flying??
The really stupid thing is that there are high resolution pictures of just about ever single commercial plane that is flying today posted on the internet. All they needed to to was negotiate a price from the photographer for a picture of the plane that crashed.
COEXERJ145 found a picture of the plane that probably was the one that crashed and posted a link to it. Below is a link to his post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1690739/posts?page=483#483
No, at least not before they have time to call in their "experts". Even then maybe not.
Journalists are generalists, they no nothing about anything in particular. Anytime you have knowledge of the background area of a story, you'll find all sorts of inaccuracies and down right errors.