Originally Posted by Pantera

The media is just a bunch of idiots when it comes to aviation. In regards to this accident I have heard three things that show the media incompetence:

"the aircraft flew into PRIME icing....." uh you mean RIME icing.

When they were playing back the ATC tapes they subtitled one aircraft as saying "we don't have them on our D-cas. Uh you mean TCAS??


And in the paper...".the aircraft was trying to do a 180 maneuver which helps get rid of the icing per the textbook". Um here I think some bonehead read that if you fly into icing do a 180 and get the hell out of it.

Media = morons