Missing Airliner (2 Viewers)

[nysoldiers]

CNN.....mostly entertainment....some news......a lot of very hot female hosts and journalists (sorry if that is politically incorrect).
They played this story to ad nauseum!

 

[Panzer ace]

Like most news organizations CNN has become too much TMZ and not enough ITN.

 

[Scott]

He has his own share of responsibility for the state of news broadcasting today.

[h=3]Political activism[/h] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite#Political_activism

 

[Scott]

Political activism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite#Political_activism

Some folks blame Cronkite but it's really that news departments were moved to the entertainment dept. in some networks to make $$$$. When supernatural causes for the crash were posited then one can see that it's under entertainment.

 

[jazzeum]

More about legal moves, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-compensation.html?hp&_r=0

The firm mentioned are basically ambulance chasers of the sky and based on what I see not afraid to push the ethical bounds.

 

[Larry Allen]

ON the front page of MSN today it discussed statistics of flying.

http://news.msn.com/world/will-flight-370-change-the-future-of-flying

In 2013 "only"... (if that is really a proper use of the word here) ... 210 people were killed in commercial aviation.
For context, 3 billion people flew safely in 2013, traveling on 36.4 million flights.

However this debacle has highlighted 6 or more changes that need to be made to the Airline Industry .... including NOT to be able to lose contact with the airplane and replacing the BLACKBOX with a technology of streaming live data.

The only one item that was not mentioned is the .... Pilot and Copilot sanity safety check. Which I have noticed everyone (government / airlines / etc) is very afraid to discuss, even though it appears more and more likely that this was the air crew's direct action and intent.
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/...rance-is-now-a-criminal-investigation/360013/


I have millions of miles in the air and until NOW I felt pretty safe ... given the above numbers.
But thank goodness that my frequent business flying days are over.

--- Larry

 

[bradleyl30]

There is a book called. "The Science of Fear." One really interesting part is that it claims we miscount the 9/11 disaster by just over 1500 lives. These are the increased traffic fatalities that year. Essentially, you could look at the 20 years before 9/11 and the 5 or more years after 9/11 and traffic fatalities follow a fairly predictable and stable curve when accounting for the increases in people on the road. With one exception. In the 12 months after 9/11 there is a huge spike that does not appear anywhere else in the curve. An extra 1500 people died because people were afraid to fly.

The above is a paraphrase of a much more elaborate and nuanced analysis, but for me it is pretty compelling.