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From the CNN link above:
My bold. Is this the best CNN can do in terms of an “aviation analyst”?
You must be new to CNN.
Sadly, whenever there is an aviation topic that we know something about, the amount of B.S. reporting is quite high. Soon we will hear from all sorts of "experts" that speculate about what they don't know about. Actually, substitute aviation topic for any topic, and it is about the same. For all of the newsworthy events that we don't know anything about, we can only assume it is no more accurate.
On the other hand, I highly recommend reading (United Airlines)
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival, by Laurence Gonzales et al for in-depth reporting on a fan blade failure, what caused the failure, why it was not predicted or detected in advance (the underlying fault had existed in that blade for almost 2 decades before the catastrophe), and the effects that it had on people. While many of us know the details of that DC-10 flight in 1989 over Iowa and its heroic crew, this newer book goes much deeper into how one piece of titanium alloy changed so much.