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Old 24th Feb 2007, 14:55
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Chuffer Chadley
 
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Wee one-

Nice rant. Which pretty much totally misses the point.

Expressions such as 'schreeched to a halt by the water's edge' and 'had to pull sharply back up into the sky' are at best mislaeding sensationalism, and at worst simple lies.

Nobody is suggesting that The Sun (gawd bless it) should be using technical language, but this sort of reporting is lazy, unhelpful and untruthful. It does shift newspapers, though.

Further, the graphic is wildly inaccurate, and the comment suggesting the go-around was a 'really narrow miss' is also untrue.

I hope that this clarifies the complaint that is made here by other forum users.

CC

PS: My Daddy didn't pay for my knowledge of flying.
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