Never let facts get in the way of a good alarmist storyline, or a lack of basic education or intelligence.
Whenever I see one of these reports stating something like "the aircraft crash landed within yards of a packed beach" or whatever, I always write to the author of this junk and explain to him that
it was a FORCED LANDING and one trains for those
the beach was empty
etc
and if we all did that every time some rag prints this stuff, there just might be a little less of it.