Once again, the media excels itself at half-cocked, badly-researched, poorly-written, "screaming headlines" stories ...
The Australian publishes a story about Des' escape from the crash that killed his father - and shows 1954 headlines of the wrong aircraft crash ...
How the Courier-Mail reported 1954 plane crash that killed pilot Des Porters father and brother| The Australian
Earlier in the evening, the headlines across the nation papers and websites were screaming, "missing plane has shocking crash history". Someone must have revved them up, because those headlines have now nearly all been withdrawn.
Once again, the media never lets the facts get in the way of sensationalist reporting ....