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The Truth About Flight Tracking. How the NY Times Got it Wrong
Since the MH370 disappearance, there's been so much media fixation on how planes are and aren't tracked. Most of the reporting, though, has been erroneous or misleading. Here's an example. (www.askthepilot.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I think that computerization has taken over , and not left any more to feel with the pilots flying the planes.... i drive a cadillac cts and the computer tells the vechile what it wants ,,,( been working on cars since i was 14 now 80, and need my owners to set the clock in my car with the help of the DIP divers information panel LET the pilots fly the planes with the help of the computer.. thank you frank silano
That's the pilot in the left seat, reading the Timea.
Right seat, co-pilot and Fox News.
Right seat, co-pilot and Fox News.
From the heavily left bias and editorialized news New York Times, I expect nothing less
After putting in 40 or so years as a newsman (I dislike being called a "journalist," the accusation made many decades ago about college grads starting out on newspapers), I wish I could refute the disgruntled comments made here. All I can say safely is that we all can thank the digital scoops that throng the Internet. Instant reporting is now the lifeline of the press on the overwhelming Internet. The best reporting is of course the correct reportage. Sources like the NY Times insist on reporting reality and depend on their reporters to follow that rule. But mistakes happen, and newsmen anxious to rise into the upper atmosphere of editorship sometimes fail to open their parachutes on the way down.
The NYT now longer reports the news. The NYT reports a point of view of the news.
It's always difficult to pick out the truth from the hype that the media feed us. It would seem that a substantial part of the aircraft tail section has been located some kilometres away from other wreckage. If that is indeed that case then that suggests the tail broke off. Notwithstanding the material from which it is made, it is never going to be stronger than being able to resist a gust ratio of 66 feet per second. If that limit is reached (which happens frequently in a thunderstorm especially in the tropics) and control forces are applied at the same moment then the gust ratio is exceeded and that component breaks apart.
Remenber, the news business is......a business. They sell the news to gain viewers. Their not in the business of reporting the facts, and, unfortunately, not only has it been like that for too long, it's not going to get any better.