I was surprised this morning; CNN's Miles O'Brien has been doing quite
knowledgeable coverage on this. He's a Cirrus SR-20 owner/pilot, and
had some very plausible scenarios as to how a new pilot/owner might
interact even with a CFI. Sometimes a CFI might let a situation occur
as a teaching exercise, but then it escalates out of control.

Media coverage IS awful, but we the viewers DEMAND continuous non-stop
injections of input from these people. They either find an interviewee
who will say something "relevant," or they give up the on-air thing.

I'm so old, I remember when JFK was murdered. I was in college. All we
could think of to do was to sit the Hell there and watch. I did that,
until Jack Ruby walked over and smoked Oswald, whereupon I left and
went to dinner. I believe non-stop coverage began that evening.


RON

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