Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
It couldn't be that ATSB's decisions to investigate are affected by the extent of media interest in accidents, could it?
Dunno about that. Apart from The West Australian, the media has shown little interest in the fact that a B737 crashed in WA yesterday afternoon. Perhaps the east-coast-centric Australian media outlets don’t think such an event is newsworthy.
I’m also more than a little surprised the world’s best aviation journalist hasn’t popped up with a few “insights”…