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Old 6th Jul 2009, 21:08
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Will Fraser
 
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Your post is noted. My point in focusing on the parts of the report that are not conclusive but purport to be and the potential for people to "misunderstand" is to show how unprofessional it is. In a long life I have worked as both an investigator and a technical writer. I will leave you with this.

'ligne de vol' - Line of flight. period. The French have a word for horizontal which would have been my choice to convey 'level'. The word is, 'horizontal'. Words have meaning, and subtly guide the reader.

The a/c was not 'flying', it was crashing. Minor? Depends on one's perspective. Here we casually trash the journalist who can't get things right and displays a vocabulary that is amateurish. Do we not hold the investigators to a higher standard? Why make note of bodies discovered that were 'apparently well preserved', but not mention there were others?
No explanation for a lack of Medical data? 'We hadn't received the results' does not wash, IMO.

The Chinese say, "A half truth is a whole lie."
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