If it weren’t that three people are dead, the whole incident would look like one long comedy.
The pilot was senior to his supposed instructor. Four flight deck crew don’t notice the bad approach to an airport they are all familiar with. On impact, the tail breaks off, spilling debris, passengers, and cabin crew as the aircraft skids and spins down the runway. When they stop, the flight deck crew meditates on what to do next.
The co-pilot of a plane on an adjacent runway calls for help for survivors who he (not to mention his passengers) has spotted, but his call doesn’t seem to be a priority with rescuers. When the crashed plane’s pilot does call for evacuation, two of the chutes deploy inside the aircraft, squashing a couple of cabin crew. They are freed with a fire ax and a dinner knife.
The surviving passengers grab their camera-equipped cellphones and run like bunnies, looking back like a crowd of Lot’s wives to see the plane in flames. One isn’t fast enough and is run over by a fire truck.
I’m guessing there will be more of the same as more details emerge.
That’s pretty much my point. Given the amount of news coverage North Korea and China have gotten in recent years, you’d think a journalist might say, “Wait just a gosh-darned minute!”
I got a different thing from the name than my husband - he got the same one as runner pat - I understood it as Bang the Ding Ow (Out) of the plane after it crashed. I still thought it was funny.
I don’t speak either, I don’t have a degree of any sort, none of my jobs have ever put me in constant contact with foreign names and that was the first thing I spotted even before actually reading the names.
As someone who has lived with the fucking annoyance of having a phone number really really close to one that was undergoing a flood of calls, here is my prediction of what happened.
Everyone in the world is calling the NTSB.
Random dude is getting 1% of the calls.
Random dude is pissed and finally answers the phone NTSB and gives the station these 4 names.
Hijinks occur.
That’s not how it happened. Some joker provided the names to the TV station, which called the NTSB for confirmation. A summer intern there confirmed the names. The NTSB has acknowledged that.
It is NOT the fault of the Internet. The Internet has only revealed what’s been true all along.
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Norvell (June 11, 1807)
Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true—except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. —Erwin Knoll, editor, “The Progressive”
“… it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists.” —George Orwell, “Homage to Catalonia” (1938)
Ima Hogg was the daughter of Texas Governor James Hogg. Contrary to humor, she did not have a sister named “Ura”. Ima Hogg - Wikipedia
See above quotes.
Rather’s own experts TOLD him they could not confirm the documents. That great journalist went with them anyway.
You think there’s a difference? Naivete is so cute!
If reports are true, the airline is going to sue KTVU over “damage to its reputation”. That seems ill-advised to me. First, surely their primary concern at this time should be the crash investigation and the welfare of the passengers and crew, rather than some little prank? And secondly, any damage to their reputation from this must be pretty minor compared to that from, you know, flying a plane into the ground?
