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Old 07-06-2013, 04:35 PM   #1
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Jet crashes at San Francisco airport

BBC, but pretty much everyone's reporting on this right now.

A trans-Pacific flight arriving from Seoul crash landed at an airport in San Francisco today, utterly wrecking the plane, tearing off the tail fin and one of the engines (!) in the process. Yet according to early reports from evacuated passengers, it seems that no one was seriously injured. Thank goodness!

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Old 07-07-2013, 01:06 PM   #2
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In a sad follow-up to yesterday's story, the BBC reports:

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A Boeing 777 aircraft that crash-landed at San Francisco airport killing two people did not have mechanical problems, an airline official has said.

The head of the South Korean airline Asiana, Yoon Young-doo, did not rule out human error but said the pilots were experienced veterans.

Most of the 307 people on board were injured, 49 of them seriously.
So I guess the thread title should be changed to have the "; all seem OK" bit removed. Thanks. Also, condolences to anyone who may have known anyone who was on the plane and was injured or killed.
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Old 07-07-2013, 01:52 PM   #3
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How does "no one was injured" get mistaken for "most everyone was injured"? >_> That's some silly reporting right there.
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Old 07-07-2013, 02:11 PM   #4
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How does "no one was injured" get mistaken for "most everyone was injured"? >_> That's some silly reporting right there.
Yesterday, all the news sites were going with Twitter tweets and the like made by survivors who were tweeting from the crash site via their cell phones. Given the size of the crowd of survivors and given that it seems the casualties were localized to the back of the plane, I can see how these passengers made the innocent mistake of thinking everyone made it out alive and with only minor scrapes and bruises.

Unfortunately, the BBC and most other modern news sites edit their news articles rather than issuing retraction statements in follow-up stories, so if you click the link in yesterday's post, you'll find today's article instead of what they had there yesterday. Yesterday they hadn't reported on a single death or critical condition patient, but today they've reported on two of the former and five of the latter.
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Old 07-08-2013, 09:20 PM   #5
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So apparently on the South Korean TV news, when they reported this event on the day it happened, the anchorman said something along the lines of, "Two people died, but don't worry, they were only Chinese people."

China was not pleased. The anchorman has since been fired.
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