It is this sort of journalistic inaccuracy that annoys most of us...and personally makes me wonder how many other stories are just as erroneous.
Having been near the action on some news items (not aviation-related), I can assure you that the errors aren't confined to aviation. Indeed, a group of us were collecting press reports after one event and laughing at how many reporters had totally misunderstood things, focussed on irrelevant bits or had apparently just copied someone else's story and reworded it slightly. A friend who was at a ManU football game somewhere in Europe once had a totally different story on "crowd trouble" to what was reported in the press. Basically apply a pinch of salt to whatever you read and note that in some cases a much bigger pinch is required.