Press reporting of all things aviatory
There have been numerous wailings and gnashing of teeth on this forum about the dramatising and mis-reporting of aviation details in the press.
I saw in the paper recently, an article reporting the crash in Phuket. In amongst all of the survivor reports and eye-witness accounts - in a box in the centre of the page was a sub-headline which was something like:
"MD-80, a troubled history"
Then followed three accounts of accidents involving MD-80's covering umpteen years. Nothing, of course to mention the hundreds of thousands of accident-free hours flown by the type during the same period.
What about the articles every time there's a fatal RTA, followed by a scathing history of the Vauxhall Nova, or some such vehicle with a "troubled history"?
If man had been meant to fly, why were we given the railway?