Originally Posted by
Mooloo
It’s a little unfair to expect the media to be experts on aviation, they’ll play what’s in front of them and of course they’ll make the story as click baity as possible. This is their job. Like folks in the media “the great unwashed” also tend to over react to aviation incidents.
This us and them attitude some of us have isn’t helpful. At days end aviation is in the news for multiple turn backs in a short timeline. Coincidence or not, whether we like it or not, this is newsworthy.
Some SLF think that the phrase ' we lost an engine', means it physically fell off the wing.