Aviation incidents are the hot topic in the news at the moment so every little problem gets reported.
Which reminds me, I had an alternator fail on a PA28 on Saturday, does anyone have the number for the BBC news desk? There weren't any death plunges or screaming passengers (it was only me and the CFI on board at the time) but we did have fire trucks following us to the stand. Not much of an event probably newsworthy if the BBCs latest offerings are anything to go by!
Maybe I could start my own thread, 'Pilot lands aircraft with slightly discharged battery', then I could have a whole team of armchair technicians diagnose the fault and what went wrong along with a load of professional pilots patting me on the back for 'a job well done'...