falconvalley
Absentee Dad of the OOTSK, Runner, Cat Frustrator
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090814/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_mid_air_collision
It seems there are a lot of articles with the AP stamp on them that manage to piss me off. I realize that the Teterboro controller may have not followed protocol. However, the details in this article are clearly meant to be misleading.
First- the phone call the controller made was referred to as "personal" at the very beginning of the article. If the details much further down the article are correct, this phone call was NOT a personal call. Sure, maybe the conversation drifted off, but the call did start as a work related call. They admit it later on, but the way it was worded in the very first sentence...well it was no accident. They meant it to sound that way.
Second- they once again report like they know what they are talking about when they clearly don't. If the details they provided are correct, this controller had told the pilot of the Piper a/c to contact Newark. They made it sound like the mid air was the controller's fault and made him look like a fool. Not cool by me.
It looks to me that the controller's actions have nothing to do with the accident, but the AP stamped writer decided to air the controller's dirty laundry anyway.
GOOD JOB AP!
It seems there are a lot of articles with the AP stamp on them that manage to piss me off. I realize that the Teterboro controller may have not followed protocol. However, the details in this article are clearly meant to be misleading.
First- the phone call the controller made was referred to as "personal" at the very beginning of the article. If the details much further down the article are correct, this phone call was NOT a personal call. Sure, maybe the conversation drifted off, but the call did start as a work related call. They admit it later on, but the way it was worded in the very first sentence...well it was no accident. They meant it to sound that way.
Second- they once again report like they know what they are talking about when they clearly don't. If the details they provided are correct, this controller had told the pilot of the Piper a/c to contact Newark. They made it sound like the mid air was the controller's fault and made him look like a fool. Not cool by me.
It looks to me that the controller's actions have nothing to do with the accident, but the AP stamped writer decided to air the controller's dirty laundry anyway.
GOOD JOB AP!