Caught
this today on Flight International. I've pasted the interesting bit below.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...sign-flaw.html
A safety recommendation in the report relates to the training of controllers to consider the balance of risk involved in directing an aircraft with impaired controls or power over major conurbations, rather than vectoring them to airports away from urban areas.
While I appreciate the concern for those on the ground, I hope this doesn't mean that one day, a crew requesting vectors to the nearest airport will be sent to a lower population risk location, instead of the nearest runway.