Dave W wrote:@flyingearly was talking about social media where that very much does happen.
Disappointingly we have had to deal with it a few times here, as Mods, including for fatalities.
Actually, I was talking about both - as I think it does happen.
On a number of these regional news 'live update' pages, they tend to trot out something along the lines of 'The aircraft, which is registered to XXXXX, came down 14 minutes etc etc'.
I get that a 'plane crash' sounds very newsworthy, but I can't envisage anyone considering it acceptable to do the same for a road traffic accident 'in the moment' (I fully understand that in tragic circumstances, it is commonplace for a news article to write about the victims). You just wouldn't hear a regional website publish 'The BMW i Series, which was bought in 2007 and registered to John Smith, veered across the road'.
I guess it goes with the territory; just a shame really that people can't suffer misfortunate without also having to deal with others publicising it.