Media Terminology

pclancy

:rolleyes:

Source www.stuff.co.nz

Flight NZ535, carrying 95 people from Auckland to Christchurch, ran into trouble "about 10 minutes" after takeoff, a passenger said tonight.

He said jetstream coming over the engine on the aircraft's right-hand side turned from white to grey, then black.

The smell of burning rubber filled the cabin, causing panic among the passengers

Air New Zealand 737 diverts to Wellington

Must not publish these things...apparantly it just surged and was shut down. What good is scaremongering?

donkey balls

pclancy wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Source www.stuff.co.nz

Flight NZ535, carrying 95 people from Auckland to Christchurch, ran into trouble "about 10 minutes" after takeoff, a passenger said tonight.

He said jetstream coming over the engine on the aircraft's right-hand side turned from white to grey, then black.

The smell of burning rubber filled the cabin, causing panic among the passengers

Air New Zealand 737 diverts to Wellington

Must not publish these things...apparantly it just surged and was shut down. What good is scaremongering?[/quote]

answer because the flying public& media have an obsession with acft accident/incidents this started to happen late 60s early 70s with hijackings a common thing the terrorists knew they would gain publicity.(for there cause)

what we would consider something trivial like a go around or engine failure on a jet the media just hype it up(we all know that you can land with just one engine running)

N2

I wouldn't excately call an engine failure trivial, and engine surge/stalls can actually be quite violent...

FlutterinBantam

I would agree with you, not in any way trivial,although in fairness maybe that was not what the poster said.

Not routine either actually,serious event if you ever had to deal with it.

Dacian

I can remember a headline from about 6-7 years ago. It read "WESTLIFE IN AIR TERROR SCARE".....now it may well have been Boyzone. They had been on an EI flight into Dublin that had to do a very low go-around. While non-routine it is not neccesarily a dangerous proceure. The boys were interviewed an one of them said "I thought we were all going to die"

The media (and public,look at this forum) are pretty obsessed with the potential for drama and sensationalism that surrounds aviation.

jasonb

Dacian wrote: »

The media (and public,look at this forum) are pretty obsessed with the potential for drama and sensationalism that surrounds anything.

FYP...

J.

diverdriver

Did it 'plunge' at any time or enter a 'tailspin'. I think we should be told!