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<font size="+2">"feared dead" which is factual is also
speculative....That kind of news belongs on the 6 oclock news comercial
broadcast....I think HAM news items should at least stick to the known
items like the crash and that would have been enough...maybe in this
case asking people to take an alternet rout around the area and not
clog rescue with spectators...<br>
Tad N1QAG<br>
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VE7GDH wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid001401c5987d$cf4c5f70$6501a8c0@d2" type="cite">Steve
K4HG wrote on 03/08/2005
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I would point out the bulletin said "feared
dead", which was factual.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
The first bulletin to ALL said...
<br>
"Lufthansa plane crashes in Tonto 200 feared dead"
<br>
<br>
It wasn't Lufthansa. It wasn't in Tonto. No-one died in the crash.
<br>
Fortunately, no Lufthansa planes crashed in Tonto National Forest in
<br>
California yesterday. I'm glad that I wasn't waiting with a D7 in my
hands at LAX for relatives on a Lufthansa flight.
<br>
<br>
The second bulletin to BLNA said...
<br>
"Lufthans plane crashes in Toronto 200 feared dead"
<br>
<br>
Not Lufthans either. It was Air-France. Although the sender feared that
200
<br>
were dead, none were. The only thing that was really factual was that a
<br>
plane had crashed and the sender eventually got the location correct
except
<br>
if left still left some ambiguity by not saying Which Toronto it was.
The
<br>
actual crash was at Pearson Intnl Airport at Toronto Ontario. Not
Toronto
<br>
IA, IL, IN, KS, MO, OH, SD, or TX.
<br>
<br>
In defence of the sender of the bulletin, I happened to watch something
that
<br>
I recorded yesterday and it had a US broadcaster mis-identifying it as
<br>
Lufthansa. In attacking the sender, isn't APRS supposed to be for local
<br>
tactical communications? The originator lives something like 535 km
away
<br>
from where the plane skidded off the runway. I spend more time than I
should
<br>
reading news from around the world most days. How would be if I sent
out
<br>
bulletins (accurate or not) for every "bad news" story that I happened
to
<br>
glance at?
<br>
<br>
By the way, did you have any relatives on that plane? If so, you must
have
<br>
been very relieved that they didn't die along with 200 others. If I was
<br>
waiting for relatives at the airport with a D7 in my hand, the last
thing I
<br>
would want to see flash up on the screen would be an inaccurate report
of a
<br>
plane crash with "200 feared dead" in it.
<br>
<br>
73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
<br>
--
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