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Old 12th May 2006 | 00:52
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Bomber Harris
 
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First off, playing the "female card" is not only crass and dated, but it shows your colours, ma'am. "Bat the eyelids and the pilots will tell all". Why don't you post a picture of you lifting your skirt above your knee!! Maybe I'm wrong about you but that is the way you introduced yourself, so be prepared for the retoric.

It must be clear to you by now most pilots are of the opinion that a "professional" person in the media has the objective to make a program that the maximum amount of people will watch thereby selling the maximum amount of advertising space for the maximum amount of money. I'm sure you are very "professional"!!!

In comparison, a pilot wants to find out why an accident or incident occured so as to train other pilots not to repeat the incident or else change procedures so that it cannot occur again (I know it's a simplistic explanation). As you can see we have very different objectives when it comes to analysing accidents or incidents.

Now for my less sarcastic comment: Inevitably the cause of accidents are so complex that they are very difficult to comprehend by non-industry personnel. As such, this makes presentation on a TV progamme an extremly difficult task and, furthermore, comprehension by the average viewer can be an even more difficult pusuit. As a result of this, it has become common for TV documentaries to focus on a single event or circumstance which appears to be "scandalous" as the cause. This satisfies the "60 minute" hit that the viewer requires but very often distorts the truth beyond recognition.

Back to sarcasm: I am confident that in order to be as "professional" as possible you will replace words such as "descended" with words such as "plummeted". This may be a simple journalistic embellishment but it is a twisting of the facts to a pilot. Unless you tells us the vertical speed and the attitude of the aircaft then use of the word plummet just means gutter press to us.

I hope this goes some way towards explaining why pilots are anti press. You have to understand it took many years of bad press to develop this distrust. I don't think you will repair it all with a "bat of the ould eyelids", ma'am.
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