Stupid headline watch

[electricland]

CityNews: Porter Airlines Uses Same Type Of Turboprop Plane Involved In Crash

Dudes, it's a freaking Dash-8. EVERYBODY uses them.

Comments

[bryghtboy.livejournal.com]

I think that if they thought they could get away with it some media outlets would report that "Insert-Disliked-Personage-Here" is made up of 90% of the same material that Hitler was made out of... the dreaded Dihydrogen-Monoxide!

They are just aiming to get people to read the stupidity so that they can continue to have a reason to exist. This is a pretty hack job of reporting but I wish that it was more surprising than it is...

[electricland.livejournal.com]

it's actually slightly more annoying than the "Canadian on board!" stories that have also started popping up.

[bryghtboy.livejournal.com]

I think given the position where the crash took place it would almost be more surprising if there wasn't a Canadian on board. I wonder if that would ever be newsworthy... plane goes down in Northern Ontario and there are no Canadians on board!

News in general annoys me, although I do sympathize with your annoyance about both the Dash-8 and the "Canadian on board!" silliness. Maybe one day only useful information will be presented via media outlets, things that change us and make our lives better.

[lostvoice.livejournal.com]

As soon as I heard the news this morning, I knew someone would be ragging on the poor Dash-8. I love Dash-8s.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I know, they're awesome! (Did I tell you I got to go to the Bombardier factory for Family Day last year? It was COOL.)

[lostvoice.livejournal.com]

That is a field tip I would have enjoyed!

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

And to think I was on one three weeks ago... yikes. I know they're probably as safe as any other plane, but walking out onto the tarmac at Charlotte's airport and seeing this twelve-seater plane sitting there, with the propellors tied down so that they wouldn't start spinning in the wind causing the plane to start taxiing away from those of us who were boarding, was a bit of a sobering sight.

(I think I was on a slightly larger plane for the Buffalo-Charlotte and Atlanta-Buffalo legs of my flights - it was just the Charlotte-Chattanooga and Chattanooga-Atlanta legs that used these tiny little planes. I think my boss' business partner's Hummer is bigger than the planes I was on...)