"José Jiménez" nospam@please wrote in message
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David Starer wrote:

In many other European countries gliding is part of the fabric of
everyday life and I would expect reporting there to be better informed
and as a result, much more balanced and accurate.

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A member of my club recently made a perfectly normal, safe outlanding in
a field in Lincolnshire near to a field where a cricket match was in
progress. Unfortunately the local rag found out and reported it in the
usual sensationalised "Glider Pilot in Shock Horror Death Plunge" kind of
language.

Unfortuately, this is the norm rather than the exception even in Germany.
For the very least it's titled as an "emergency landing".

At least that's a "landing" of some sort; here it's usually reported as a
"crash", even when it's blindingly obvious there wasn't one!