Light aircraft down in Dundee

[avgh]

is this right?

Thi is my first mesage board - what happens is:

1. Pilot gives Press Interview
2. Press prints stuff - mostly accurate, but with errors (such as running out of fuel - their interpretation for stopping at Dundee for fuel when I ran out of MARGIN for Kinloss but had 50 minutes fuel)
3. Message board writers pick up the story and add their own speculation - they do not even interview the pilot!
4. THEN - and this is the bad bit - the Press begin to quote "A professional Pilots Message Board" and start to magnify the story beyond all recognition.

Now I don't know about you but I am not a Professional pilot and and was asked no questions about whether I was even a Pilot when joining the site.

Is it right that the views of people who are not in posession of the facts and do not always hold any qualifications themselves (I know that some of you do of course) should be treated by the Press as those of Professional aviators?

I find it all rather saddening really, whilst welcoming the comments of those who have taken the trouble to study facts. Vince