Couldn't agree with you more
ST27. I do get annoyed at the media's continuous decision to over-hype any incident regardless of how minor or how major (in this case) it is.
Simple things such as during on American News Channels broadcast about the recently discovered findings from the AF447 black boxes (I think either CBS or FOX) they kept referring to the 'Airbus A330' as a 'Jumbo Jet'. Why can't they just have someone on call in the Aviation industry to confirm and provide the basic information for incidents.
Also an incident closer to home was the Thomson 738 incident at Newcastle Airport last year when they said it went off the runway and continued to emphasise that 'no-one was injured'. Of course no one was seeing as the airport never went off the runway, it continued onto the overrun area and the pilot was more than happy to turn.
I'll stop ranting...
