Just for those who think these standards of journalism are unique to aviation stories, you only have to look at this weekend's reporting of the Virgin Trains railway accident in the North of England. Repeatedly described in the media was how the train driver, after the high speed derailment, "heroically stayed at the controls to steer the train to safety". Now you don't have to be from a railway background to know that the steering control a train driver has, whether it is derailed or not, is precisely zero. Another one from the "narrowly missed a school" school of journalism.