More quality journalism.
It seems that the continual inability of news reporters to even get something as fundamental as an aircraft type right, Cessna/jabiru, has now extended to delusions of expert commentary on the vulnerability of aircraft to attack by surface to air missiles.
Yesterday on ABC news 24 the female presenter commented that overflights of Iraq by QANTAS are safe because they fly at altitudes of up to 40 thousand feet. She made the sage observation that there is an enormous difference between 33 thousand feet and the higher levels that QANTAS operate at!
54 years ago Francis Gary Powers, flying a U2 spy plane was shot down over the former Soviet Union by an SA-2 Guideline missile. He was operating at an altitude of up to 65 thousand feet!
No air breathing aircraft is safe from these threats.
Lady, You are an idiot!
Last edited by KRUSTY 34; 30th Jul 2014 at 06:38.