Originally Posted by
The Old Fat One
Most aircrew I've met in my life are pragmatists schooled in the University of Hard Knocks.
So let's live in the real world people shall we?
By way of example, one of the off-duty Nimrod crewmates in Toronto was introduced to the unfolding events on a TV screen on his way to take The Telephone Call. That's how it happens these days.
Getting bent out of shape because photographs appear in the media pretty promptly is basically a denial of the world we live in...whether we like it or not.
Have to say that I agree.
My introduction to the OCU as I walked into the entrance hall of the OM was to overhear a discussion of a multi-fatality crash.
O1: "Yes, you know him; he looked a bit anaemic!"
O2: "Well, he's 'kin anaemic now all right!"