Airline Pilot Central Forums - AF 447 Telegraph-UK

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Originally Posted by FlightGear (Post 1179410)

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..... Actually this is far from fair and balanced. The First Sentence: "With the report into the tragedy of Air France 447 due next month, Airbus’s 'brilliant’ aircraft design may have contributed to one of the world’s worst aviation disasters and the deaths of all 228 onboard." Think about the word 'brilliant'. Its an emotive not a technical word in this instance. It implies rather than informs, not a good way to start a well centered journalistic work reporting on the deaths of 228 civilians. A tragedy is the Knicks going down to the Lakers, or Chevy beating Ford or having a 32 hour layover somewhere you hate, an individual killing 228 passengers by accident whilst performing his job is something else.

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Um... I totally agree with you about the bias, but keep in mind this is a British article, you might not spend much time in the UK as "brilliant" is an extremely common colloquial word there that does not have the same connotation as here, more means between "cool" or "excellent", sometimes used sarcastically... I don't think this is the word to pick upon in this particular case, as it kind of fits what they were claiming.

Substitute "state of the art" for "brilliant" in this case for meaning.