If the suspension of my car gave way why driving down the road, and I brought the car to a stop without hitting anything, would that be a CRASH is the eyes of the media?
Errr......the BBC link describes it as a non-reportable incident, with no-one being hurt. Now, I know this is a Rumours forum, but how did ANYONE manage to translate that into a crash? !!!
It never ceases to amaze me how fantastic some stories in the non aviation press become. I have read news articles written about incidents I have been involved with and wondered whether I was really there. Even the good old Beeb get it wrong more often that not. Never believe what happened until the AAIB have had their say.
About 2 years I was borrowing some headsets from a friends plane in a hanger, I was carrying my flight bag, I got what I needed and left. I returned two hours later having left my flight bag in the car and put the headsets back. A mechanic who didn't recognise me saw me arriving at the aircraft and leaving 2 hours later, originally with and then without the flight bag. Now the 'would be detective' put two and two together and decided that I must have been carrying a bomb and had just spent two hours installing it on a 6 seater aircraft that hadn't left the ground in 3 months. Anyway, I left the field and then get a text from a friend saying the airfield had been shut down and the police and bomb disposal unit had arrived, this information was then passed to the Sun who wrote something to the effect of 'one of Britain's busiest airfield was closed yestarday when a man was seen lurking near on of the aircraft'. Not often that you get to share page 3 of the Sun with Mike Tyson.
That would be ridiculous, I propose the government set-up a department called the National Association against Aircraft Lurkers (NAAL), this must be manned 24 hours a day by no fewer than 500 beauracrats. An extensive terror risk assessment can then be carried out when a pilot goes near an aircraft.
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