Comments on: Flying the Flags at Half Staff http://airspeedonline.com/2007/04/flying-the-flags-at-half-staff/ Mon, 15 May 2017 14:44:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: McKeeganWRX http://airspeedonline.com/2007/04/flying-the-flags-at-half-staff/#comment-23 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:13:00 +0000 http://airspeedonline.com/?p=36#comment-23 I’m really distressed about this incident; it’s always unfortunate whenever a pilot goes down with his plane.

I’m also extremely uncomfortable with the coverage the media has been doing on this incident. Case in point; a local TV news channel did a whole segment on airshows called, “High-Flying + High-Speed = High-Risk!” The long and short of their segment was that airshows are too risky and that we should more or less abolish them.

I almost cried when the news anchor rattled off some cities that are now considering legislation to ban airshows.

The fact that I am statistically more likely to die on my way to the airshow (by several orders of magnitude), rather than being in attendance, doesn’t seem to deter anyone in the media.

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