Another black eye for GA

Just seen on Fox news:

The pilot of a Piper Cherokee was reportedly forced to land at a
Philadelphia area reliever airport after "flying right over" the
International Airport. The news reader also said that the pilot FLEW
NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (emphasis from the news reader, not me).

Video showed the plane on the runway or taxiway surrounded by police
cars. The pilot was seen exiting the plane and assuming the prone
position on the ground.

"Jack McAdams" wrote:
Just seen on Fox news:
The news reader also said that the pilot FLEW
NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
(emphasis from the news reader, not me).

Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them! This is war!
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Dan
C172RG at BFM
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Jack McAdams" wrote:
Just seen on Fox news:
The news reader also said that the pilot FLEW
NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
(emphasis from the news reader, not me).

Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them! This is war!

So...which story was more newsworthy: CNN or Fox?

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:

Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them! This is war!

So...which story was more newsworthy: CNN or Fox?

Probably CNN this time. Fox always goes for the shouters.

Rob

"Rob Perkins" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:

Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them! This is war!

So...which story was more newsworthy: CNN or Fox?

Probably CNN this time. Fox always goes for the shouters.

('scuse...CBS, not CNN, the one's that aired their laundry about the lies
they told)

Fox goes for shouters, but CBS is shrilling to shoot down Cherokee's? --
man, what are YOU smoking?

Dan Luke wrote:

"Jack McAdams" wrote:
Just seen on Fox news:
The news reader also said that the pilot FLEW
NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
(emphasis from the news reader, not me).

Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them! This is war!

Well, I didn't see how it was covered on Faux News, but on CBS (which
apparently now stands for Complete Bull Sh*t) they asked rhetorically
why the Cherokee wasn't intercepted by fighters and shot down.

Hard to top that.

David H
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"David H" wrote:
Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them!
This is war!

Well, I didn't see how it was covered on Faux News, but on
CBS (which apparently now stands for Complete Bull Sh*t)
they asked rhetorically why the Cherokee wasn't intercepted
by fighters and shot down.

Yep, that trumps the "NUCLEAR POWER PLANT!!!!" hand waving from Faux. It
will be interesting to see how they top it.
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Dan
C172RG at BFM
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"David H" wrote:
Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them!
This is war!

Well, I didn't see how it was covered on Faux News, but on
CBS (which apparently now stands for Complete Bull Sh*t)
they asked rhetorically why the Cherokee wasn't intercepted
by fighters and shot down.

Yep, that trumps the "NUCLEAR POWER PLANT!!!!" hand waving from Faux. It
will be interesting to see how they top it.

Was, or wasn't he, flying adjacent to a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT? You know...the
worst possible security risk?

Dan, you sound like you're trying to fill in the blanks of your
pre-conceived notions.

The question is how near the plant was he? I know the airport where
the guy is based and it happens to be near, yeah you guessed it, a
nuclear power plant. On a XC to Reading PA after my checkride I flew
right over the airport and the stacks of the power plant were about 4
miles off my left wing. So flying into Pottstown puts you in the
vicinity of a nuclear power plant no matter what.

Dave

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ...
"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"David H" wrote:
Damned if they're going to let CBS out-alarm them!
This is war!

Well, I didn't see how it was covered on Faux News, but on
CBS (which apparently now stands for Complete Bull Sh*t)
they asked rhetorically why the Cherokee wasn't intercepted
by fighters and shot down.

Yep, that trumps the "NUCLEAR POWER PLANT!!!!" hand waving from Faux. It
will be interesting to see how they top it.

Was, or wasn't he, flying adjacent to a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT? You know...the
worst possible security risk?

Dan, you sound like you're trying to fill in the blanks of your
pre-conceived notions.

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Was, or wasn't he, flying adjacent to a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT?
You know...the worst possible security risk?

Oh dear, oh dear! Better ground all these dangerous little airplanes!
They might blow up a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT! You remind me of the Time
magazine picture of GA airplanes with a nuke plant in the background.

Dan, you sound like you're trying to fill in the blanks of your
pre-conceived notions.

You sound like CBS/Fox. Just which side of this thing are you on,
anyway?
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Dan
C172RG at BFM
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