A4 Pacific wrote:flyingearly
How many GA pilots would have even been aware there had been an accident had they not read about it in the media?
How many GA pilots trawl through AAIB reports to discover accident causes? Answer: Not nearly enough!
How many GA pilots will now check their seat security before going flying because they’ve read about this accident in the media or on here, which is the same thing.
We are denied the opportunity of learning from others’ misfortune if we are unaware. Should any such accident befall me, I would want the cause shouting from the rooftops to prevent others following. That’s why I’m proud to be an aviator. Even in death we look out for others!
The coverage of this incident is very different from the publication of ‘last moments’ from a CVR, which I agree, would be nasty voyeurism.
That's not quite what I meant. No-one is suggesting that the AIIB shouldn't continue to publish reports - they are an objective, anonymised, facts-based analysis of the events and should be disseminated widely.
My point is that the BBC, Daily Mail, regional newspapers etc do not publish news reports on aircraft accidents for the benefit of pilots. It's just titillating clickbait that isn't actually that interesting to anybody.
Whenever there is an accident, there is often a live-text page with updates on what has happened, usually with lots of comically-incorrect remarks.
Often, there is an article when there is really 'no story to see here':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-g ... e-59596298 - runway excursion due x-wind
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/no ... t-22125264 - forced landing in field
In this particular case, I agree that the story was pretty factual and decent, but I'd suggest this is the exception rather than the norm.
The problem is that such mainstream press perpetuates the image that general aviation is dangerous, with a high likelihood of a crash - and they take routine procedures like a go-around and dumb them down into something they are not.
If this were non-aviation we'd all just shrug our shoulders and say 'so what', but the fact a light aircraft is involved gives licence to make it dramatic.
Take this AAIB report as an example:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... _03-18.pdfAnd then read the BBC report:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... s-43316303Whereabouts in the AAIB report did they say that it 'plunged'? Why don't we stop these half measures and now make any accident anywhere, or any sort, something that should be publicised across global media?:
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Joanne Bloggs miraculously escaped injury after her 1,340kg Toyota Prius crashed at Tesco Extra supermarket last Friday.
The vehicle, in which she was driving solo, was said by eye-witnesses to have scratched another vehicle during the attempted maneauvure, described by others as 'reverse parking'.
Conditions on the day were described as benign, although concerns had previously been raised by others following reports of a large number of trolleys in the area.
The crash resulted in a rapid multi-agency emergency response. Nobody was injured in the crash.
The Prius - registration GV45 2XY - had previously been involved in a crash in 2014 after suffering a high-speed puncture whilst on the M25.
Suffolk Police tweeted: 'our teams were called to a multi-vehicle collision at Tesco earlier this morning at 9:48am. Officers were on the scene within 8 minutes".
The matter will now be passed to the accident driver's insurers for analysis.