Yaffler,
There is no censorship and no conspiracy theory to hold up!! I was not at work that day, but would have heard when i returned to work if there had been an incident as we have a very open reporting system. Such a high profile incident would have been talked about by everyone.
In the aviation industry, certainly in the UK, we have a robust open reporting system - in TC we have a computer with all the recent incidents (subject to the controller involveds' agreement) and we can replay any incident at any time as a learning tool.... it is in fact encouraged for us to check the 'safety kiosk' every now and again to help learn from peoples experiences/mistakes.
as for the
Jumping to the conclusion that it isn't a proximity incident based on no evidence other than "tabloids lie and zoom lenses distort"
zoom lenses do not distort as such - wide angle lenses distort. Zoom lenses foreshorten distance between subjects.
look at the following two pictures:
The flower pot has not been moved between pictures, the lens has been used on the telephoto end for the first photo and wide angle end for the other. As you can see - the distance between the background and foreground
seems less with the telephoto lens.
This is a
basic, well known, phenomena in photography and one that the photographer at Upton Park will be more than aware of. His sale of the photograph to the press was no more than a cynical attempt to get money - even if that meant not quite being truthful about how the photograph was taken.
No conspiracy theory, just fact.