"Kev" wrote in message
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A few years back we had a run of news copter accidents. One ditched
in the East River. Another spun into a rooftop in Brooklyn (that one
was caught on tape by a rival news copter... and replayed a thousand
times). This was right after they reamed out a GA pilot for crashing
in the streets. But because it was THEIR pilots, and they were
terrified of getting banned from flying low over city streets, all the
TV stations emphasized how brave their pilots were to have saved the
passengers, etc. Quite a different tune, and they were gentler to GA
crashes for a long time afterward.

IIRC, that was just last year.