Rob wrote:

The BBC called it a "forced landing". It would have been a lot more
exciting if it was!!

BernieFlyer wrote:

Well, it would have been if the aircraft had been "crippled" as the
Daily Telegraph said, and if it had really plunged 20,000 feet, rather
than simply making a controlled descent.

If the media did a better job of reporting these things, then passengers
might be better informed and not freak out when depressurisation
incidents occur.

Sylvia.

Was the "holey" Jumbo the one the Pope flew in?
JW²

JW² wrote:

You're thinking "holy water induced corrosion"?

Perhaps it was popemania fatigue.

Or even caused by excessive genuflexing.

Sylvia.

On Jul 25, 6:30 pm, BernieFlyer gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:12:52 -0700 (PDT), Pits gmail.com>
wrote:

Sylvia Else wrote...

Journos aren't the brightest in the academic totem pole. It's just that they
have a talent for spinning tales.

Like the annoying use of the word "experts" when they refer to people who
allegedly know something about a subject.

These 'experts' that they refer to in the corrosion thing could be simply some
aviation journo, or an office worker at Qantas who took the call and thus
speculated without having any real knowledge of the facts or the science of it.

They'll grab whatever headlines that they can get and then run with them.

BernieFlyer wrote...

I s'pose that technically it could be called that. After all, they wanted to fly
to MEL but were forced to divert to Manilla...

That is, if we want to be pedantic....

:-)

On Jul 26, 12:09 pm, Coop chariotnose.netwheel.au> wrote: