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Pilot Zone => Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) => Topic started by: Rush on January 10, 2022, 06:23:03 AM

Title: You can’t make this up
Post by: Rush on January 10, 2022, 06:23:03 AM: How insane is this. I’m sure my comment will soon be deleted off PoA. CA journalism has gone full on bizarro world.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/1-hospitalized-after-single-engine-plane-crashes-near-whiteman-airport-in-sylmar-lafd/

“A pilot was hospitalized after their plane crashed in Pacoima on Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

“Body camera footage from the officers involved appears to show that the pilot is a middle-aged man, but the pilot’s name, age, gender and condition have not yet been released.”

Oh and also, the less bizarre aspect of this story:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wp1VM_iFDys

https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1480363436311670784

I’m surprised “Whiteman Airport” hasn’t been renamed yet.
Title: Re: You can’t make this up
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on January 10, 2022, 06:39:49 AM: Is that different to any other "journalism" examples?

:-)
Title: Re: You can’t make this up
Post by: Rush on January 10, 2022, 06:43:45 AM: Quote from: President-Elect Bob Noel on January 10, 2022, 06:39:49 AM
Is that different to any other "journalism" examples?

:-)

Why you...

Probably not but I don't think we have that level of lunacy yet in my corner of Texas.
Title: Re: You can’t make this up
Post by: Old Crow on January 10, 2022, 10:23:02 AM: When I first saw that I wondered what dispatch or whatever is the controlling authority said when that engineer called in to say he just crashed into an airplane.
Title: Re: You can’t make this up
Post by: Rush on January 10, 2022, 10:35:51 AM: Quote from: Old Crow on January 10, 2022, 10:23:02 AM
When I first saw that I wondered what dispatch or whatever is the controlling authority said when that engineer called in to say he just crashed into an airplane.

LOL. Jumped the track and had a midair.
Title: Re: You can’t make this up
Post by: TimRB on January 10, 2022, 10:45:10 AM: Quote from: Rush on January 10, 2022, 06:23:03 AM
“Body camera footage from the officers involved appears to show that the pilot is a middle-aged man, but the pilot’s name, age, gender and condition have not yet been released.”

The reference to gender seems to have been removed from the article.

Tim
Title: Re: You can’t make this up
Post by: Rush on January 10, 2022, 11:15:35 AM: Quote from: TimRB on January 10, 2022, 10:45:10 AM
The reference to gender seems to have been removed from the article.

Tim

Yes they did!