Pilot handling skills under threat, says Airbus

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Langewiesche

I enjoy William Langewiesche's reportage very much. I used to subscribe to the Atlantic, and now I subscribe to Vanity Fair, largely due to his presence as a staff writer. That said, bubbers44 points up something I've noticed frequently in Langewiesche's writing: He tends to identify with the point of view of his main sources. The latest example of this is a Vanity Fair article in which he makes a hero of an extreme surfer whom most other surfers would probably go miles to avoid.

So I wasn't surprised that he bought the Airbus line to a possibly excessive degree. He admired Bernard Ziegler (rightly), and fell in love with his way of looking at matters, resulting in a lack of balance in his article and book on the Hudson River incident.