Plane Speaker,
In defence of the Beeb (in this case), I thought their coverage of XH558 yesterday was surprisingly good, as others have said. What I heard and saw was:
- Edmonson was interviewed by Nicky Campbell on Radio 5 at Breakfast Time.
- During Breakfast on BBC1/News24, there were several live pieces from Robert Hall at Cottesmore.
- Further pieces throughout the day on News24, including an interview with Pleming, coverage of the take-off (with no talking so we could hear that lovely noise!), and a cut from coverage of Zimbabwe being discussed at the UN so we could see the (earlier than expected) landing at Bruntingthorpe live!
Perhaps you were watching Sky News
Well done BBC
(especially for not wheeling out Learmount, Yates, Tusa, Beaver, Moody, Nichol or any of the other usual "aviation/military" talking heads)