Okay, so I may be an amateur blogger/hack, but at least I try to get my basic facts right! That’s what frustrates me with some stories out there. People just don’t freaking try! And, I have a sneaking suspicion, that they’re outsourcing a bunch of these stories to people whose first language is not English.
Case in point: An enstarz.com article about American Airways flight #1295. Go read that, and you count the things that are wrong… I’ll wait.
Let’s see… 146 Pax in the headline? Wrong. 139 pax. The picture above the article? It’s a Boeing 737. The article about the incident itself? It’s about a McDonnell Douglas MD80. Inside the article, there’s references to both 139 pax and 7 crew (which I know is wrong), and then a little farther down it’s changed to 139 pax and 5 crew (which is correct). People on the ground reporting a problem with a plane when said plane is at 4,000 feet? I hardly think so. Not unless an engine freaking fell off or something like that! And there’s the ever present “Some say…” towards the bottom of the article, where the “reporter” mentions American’s “significant problems with engines, according to Fox News” – and then cites absolutely nothing to back up that claim.
Such crap… Hell, I could do a better job! And like I said, I’m a freaking amateur hack!