Originally Posted by
CRM114
The "media" has no interest in how a 777 works, they just want the sound bites that will sell ad space. Can you imagine listening to some dude from simulator land drone on about the ADIRU, 629 bus, PFCs, ACEs, and Redundancy Management? No way that discussion would sell cat food or tampons!
CNN could at least get a real life 777 pilot/instructor who has actually flown the aircraft in revenue service (and looks the part - think silver haired dude in a uniform) instead of the dude in t-shirt, stash, and goatee that looks like he should be selling stolen hubcaps. Sim instructor - really? MS Flight Sim?
Having this dude together with Anderson Cooper doing his handsome earnest serious thing (is that LeTigre?) has got to be one of the most absurd things I've seen on the news in a long time, the tragedy not withstanding.
Major fail for CNN.