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ex-XL-in-exile · 1st July 2009, 01:21

I take your point, but I just would have thought that in this day-and-age (where air travel among the general paxing public is RELATIVELY common) people wouldn't blindly be questioning the safety of an a/c producer simply because of two losses - especially when one considers the rarities of such events.

I would venture that most lay people go on one return plane journey a year. I also venture that most lay people are intelligent enough to know that two fatal events in goodness-knows-how-many journeys is no more than tragic coincidence.

Yet still we get threads suggesting Airbus are flawed, that maybe pax should refuse to board them, that the 330 series is doomed, that an entire company is producing rotten aircraft.

My point is this: that while those fears among the non-aviating, nervous pax should be dealt with and not ignored, why on earth should the European media (unsure of "international" coverage) be allowed to give such banner scaremongering as "Airbus are deadly" because two have been lost? They shouldn't. It's lazy journalism. Hence my Ford point.

1st July 2009, 01:21	#23 (permalink)
ex-XL-in-exile Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Murcia Age: 29 Posts: 22	Will Fraser I take your point, but I just would have thought that in this day-and-age (where air travel among the general paxing public is RELATIVELY common) people wouldn't blindly be questioning the safety of an a/c producer simply because of two losses - especially when one considers the rarities of such events. I would venture that most lay people go on one return plane journey a year. I also venture that most lay people are intelligent enough to know that two fatal events in goodness-knows-how-many journeys is no more than tragic coincidence. Yet still we get threads suggesting Airbus are flawed, that maybe pax should refuse to board them, that the 330 series is doomed, that an entire company is producing rotten aircraft. My point is this: that while those fears among the non-aviating, nervous pax should be dealt with and not ignored, why on earth should the European media (unsure of "international" coverage) be allowed to give such banner scaremongering as "Airbus are deadly" because two have been lost? They shouldn't. It's lazy journalism. Hence my Ford point.