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Old 9th Jan 2011, 04:44
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Keg, I can understand your frustration on this story, I commented to the Hun ( Herald Sun) that windshear and missed approaches are common occurences. To date these comments have not been published although they have published non relevant comment about Melbourne Airport terminal services. There seems to be a reluctance to air factual commentary which is a odds with their fanciful article. Newspapers tend to rush stories onto the streets without first investigating the veracity of their information; to include at the end of the article a request for eyewitness input is just lazy journalism. Additionally airlines also contribute to the plethora of nonsense aviation reporting by corporate lawyers gagging engineering and flight ops. people from making informed public comment for fear of litigation. Instead we end up with CEOs and flunkie arts graduate spin doctors being quoted who are incapable of twoway technical dialogue and who talk a lot but say very little. The Hun excelled itself a couple of days ago reporting a QF B767 return to land at MEL with a flap problem, from a passenger's account there was more drama than a moon shot!
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