"CASK829" wrote in message
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Why is it that idiot reporters use the term "TARMAC"? Nobody in the
aviation
world uses that term do they?


Not that I'm aware of, but there's nothing wrong with the word "tarmac".



But then again reporters usually know abolutely nothing about aviation.


I've noticed reporters frequently have little knowledge of their subject
regardless what it is.



What inspired this rant? The recent reporting on the
US Airways baggage situation and the Northwest airlines flight that kept
the
passengers on the airplane for 14 hours. On another note did Northwest
lose a
lawsuit awhile back for keeping people on an airplane while they sat on
the
ground for a very long time. If I remember correctly there was talk of
false
imprisonment charges against the airline.


Wasn't it US Customs that kept them on the plane in this recent incident?