How One Tweet Started Fake “Near Miss” Stories

I'm going out on a limb and accusing Aeroexplorer of starting the whole thing.;)

Most of the plane tracker sites can be very misleading, as instead of only showing planes at the reported locations from ADSB data, they aim to give a smooth animation between points. When data is not recieved there are changes in speed or direction, aircraft can appear to travelling along a completely different path to reality, before eventually they snap back when an ADSB location is received.

I've seen plenty of what looks like near misses in the air or on the ground, even planes seemingly taxing through therminal buildings, until they suddenly jump back to where they actually are.

The term "Near Miss" is misused. If you nearly miss something you actually hit it. In example, "I nearly missed my train" means you made the train but almost missed it. So, the use of "near miss" in any form to mean something almost happened is wrong.

That is one reason I dumped Twitter a LONG time AGO! they are nothing more than Fake News!

Well , we are not the going to discuss “ The Definition “ of Near-Miss : if one goes to the dictionary, you would see for yourself that it Means What it Means:

Close call / Near collision or something that falls short of connecting
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The biggest nightmare for a “ Pilot “ At Times we don’t have a visual. Should one Know , It very common to have “ A near-Miss” incidents especially on the Ground .That Would include, Push- back , with or Without Wing- Walkers, Land and Hold- Short , Incursions, Mistakes by other Crew Members or Controllers.

If we are to discuss the Near- Miss reference Aviation Safety close calls , There are experienced By our Follow crew Members Everywhere and Everyday .

If we had Advertise each and every single “ Near- Miss incidents we won’t be Able to have any passengers on our planes , especially for people with fear of flying.

A Big shoutout for our Towers , Controllers and our follow Pilots .

Keep our ground and skies Safe .

Looks like the old horseshoe game an gernades story. Almost.

I suggest that the recent spate of ‘near misses’ and not-so-near-misses in the last couple of years (e.g., runway incursions are 25% higher than a decade ago according to NYT), has created an environment of credibility when someone gins up a story of yet another spectacular near miss. If it weren’t for the fact that we are experiencing an alarming increase of real near misses and hits, I don’t think this story would have gotten legs.

I'm thinking 12 reporters should leave the profession. The irresponsibility of not confirming a story before putting it out for public consumption is unforgivable when that is their only job.

The media (or in this case the social media) echo chamber at work. Somebody reports or misreports an event. Somebody else “reports” that there is a report of said event. Others report on the reports. Soon there are “reports” of twitter or whatever blowing up with reports of something. It’s ridiculous.

Anyone who believes any "news" source has a fool for a client. Anytime I see something no matter who is reporting it I do my research. Blaming one source for misinformation is akin to being your lawyer in a court of law.

I hate to shake up Flightawre but you have been trapped in the past by jumping on "Aviation News" which turned out to be half truth half fiction.