Ron Snipes wrote:

What I was looking for was whether the aircraft was doing aerobatic manuvers
or not. The eyewitnesses said acrobatic, and the news geeks kept repeating
acrobatic.

I discounted those reports the moment I heard them, since loss of control
could easily be mistaken for aerobatics to the untrained eye.

Unfortunately, one of the first sound bites on CNN was that of an otherwise
astute eyewitness who was supposedly a pilot. He stated that it looked to
him like the aircraft was doing aerobatics just before the crash.

Coming from a pilot, that was the absolute wrong thing to say, given the
implications of the comment to the general, non-GA experienced public.

--
Peter