Originally Posted by ATCBob

A routine VFR traffic call gets headlined JETBLUE NARROWLY AVOIDS MIDAIR DISASTER...

Hear cockpit audio from plane's midair near-miss - CNN Video

ATC audio becomes "audio from those terrifying moments inside the cockpit!"

"We're looking, Jetblue 94" becomes "we're looking, definitely 94!"

"We got them in sight" becomes "We got them inside!" (Oh my God, the traffic is inside! Get 'em out! Get 'em out!)

"Maintain visual" becomes "Maintain distance!"

The two-talking-at-once sound becomes "What you heard there -- that long beep -- that was the alarm from the collision warning system!"

CNN's pure ineptitude and incompetence leaves me speechless. I mean, how hard is it to ask someone who knows? Or is their policy to just guess if they don't know something? Wow.