Everytime there is an aviation item in the NZ news the media's "go to guy" is a chap by the name of Peter Clark who they refer to as an "aviation expert". None of his commentary suggests that he IS an expert, but just some guy with some hairbrained ideas.
What is his background?
What are his qualifications?
Who are his sources (apart from the obvious chat rooms, international news websites, and bulletin boards/forums)??
Perhaps he reads this forum?? If you do maybe you'd like to enlighten us??
I, personally, am very suspitious of anyone who states... "the fact is..." a mere hour or two after an incident.... certainly his "facts" with respect to MH370 were wildly inaccurate and pretty much wholy unsubstantiated... and this appears also the case with MH17.
I can understand the media wanting comment and being frustrated by all the ACTUAL experts saying "well, there are no facts that have come to light so I'm unwilling to comment", or "let's wait for the results of the investigation", or "I'm unwilling to speculate" etc, but why do they then feel the need to get some talking head to tell some tall stories????
