Scurrilous Reporting

A few days ago we were alerted by a “Breaking News” bulletin of an emergency landing by the new European Airbus 380 at Vancouver airport, the largest aircraft on it’s proving flight to gain it’s acceptance for an air worthiness certificate which will enable all models to carry passengers. The news reader made this sound ominous and this was followed by a long litany of problems , in both production and management with a great deal of stress on the fact that the aircraft was now two years behind schedule with many cancellations of orders especially by American airlines such as Fedex.

On a later news cast we were shown the aircraft making a perfect landing, and taxiing into the new enlarged gate especially made for her as being the only one available in the whole of Canada. After a short visit she took off again perfectly and more silent than some other aircraft taking off around the same time.

There was not a word about the so called emergency.

Later it transpired that a Boeing Aircraft belonging to the Phillipine Airlines had returned twice to Vancouver – both times in emergency mode on the same day !

That is what I call scurrilous reporting