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Old 15th May 2006 | 02:51
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Norman Stanley Fletcher
 
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From: 'An Airfield Somewhere in England'
The faintly deranged ramblings of obsessional hatred towards journos on this thread are frankly embarrassing. The danger of such a position, apart from making pilots seem like nutters, is that a vacuum of genuine knowledge is created. As Flying Bird has said, she is interviewing family members and so forth - inevitably such testimony will be of an emotional and volatile nature. If that is not offset by incisive technical detail then great damage will be done to aviation as a whole. The simple truth is that this accident is unikely to reflect well on the crew and if the pilot community decides en-masse to boycott this documentary then technical knowlege will be obtained from people simply not qualified to provide it. Given that option, I personally hope that qualified and competent individuals will step up to provide the necessary technical expertise.

For what it is worth, I personally think that documentaries such as 'Air Crash Investigation' and 'Black Box' have been absolutely invaluable to the aviation community. These were TV programmes of the highest quality which were well-produced and presented accurate and balanced judgements of extremely complex accidents. It is not all bad in the journalistic world and some of the comments to Flying Bird are extremely inappropriate. I hope that she goes on to produce a top-quality documentary and that will only happen if the right people are around her to give guidance. There will be no shortage of the wrong people getting the wrong end of the stick - it is up to us to provide the balance.
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