What The Media Gets Wrong About Aviation and Air Travel on The News

[@alt8791]

“A single engined 45 year old plane sitting on the tarmac with an unlicensed pilot and no black box” -The media’s best line ever.

[@cofepaper9484]

And hasn't contacted air traffic control because it is in an uncontrolled airfield

[@dopepopeurban6129]

But then it took of the threshold without a flight plan and the pilot took control of the yoke and the stick..........

[@aarondynamics1311]

A single engine 45 year old Airbus 747 with an unlicensed pilot, no flight plan and no black boxes is preparing to make an emergency landing on the tarmac

[@grondhero]

Make the plane a single propeller and have the media refer to it as a twin jet engine.

[@ryanpayne7707]

No, "A single engined 45 year old plane sitting on the tarmac with an unlicensed pilot and no black box flown by an unlicensed pilot who was not talking to ATC and did not file a flight plan."

[@philbirk]

I remember an accident at a local uncontrolled field. The news media was beside themselves that the pilot never contacted air traffic control.

[@clayel1]

lol

[@xdenricoudx]

This one guy got into a bad situation because he didn’t check the engine in the pre flight inspection. If he did, he would’ve found a bird making a nest in the aircraft. I like to call that story “bird plane”

[@Hedgeflexlfz]

LOL

[@henrikthelordofyoutube]

Probably didn’t file a flight plan either 😔

[@magnusb.20]

Phil Birkelbach that’s crazy lol

[@internetexplorer4566]

the dumbest thing ive seen the media do is take a photo of a 737 during an emergency landing and they said "look at the visible hole in the engine." it was the reverse thrust in use...

[@Wemfsh]

Imagine if they find out about the -200 reverse thrust

[@SofaKingShit]

I've actually seen with my own eyes bits of the wing _coming loose_ and bending in the wind. Huge swathes of the wing slowly deforming. Other bits were breaking off and just hanging there. I had to drink most of my duty free gin in the toilet just to calm my nerves. Disgraceful!

[@emilserupdahl7219]

@@SofaKingShit wing flex?

[@callummclachlan4771]

I've seen that several times now.

[@liljimKLM]

@@SofaKingShitthe wings are supposed to flex in the wind

[@lumbagouncle800]

*An Airbus 747 crashed on tarmac this morning.*

[@1littlelee]

A single engined Airbus 747 crashed on tarmac this morning just after 2pm

[@saddamhussein3849]

* A single engine airbus 747.

[@TheKaiTetley]

Jamesminicooper. Very droll sir.

[@cmotdibbler4454]

@@saddamhussein3849 Powered only by the APU

[@safetyinstructor]

We need to build a wall between the planes and the birds... and the flight instuctors have to pay it!

[@AtomicBlastPony]

"Let's face it, the media gets a lot wrong when it comes to *everything* " Fixed.

[@lukebinno2619]

Except fox

[@mikenewton83]

Luke Binno ??? Fox called a 767 a 747 lmao

[@lukebinno2619]

Michael Newton I wasn’t talking about airplanes every news gets that wrong, I’m talking about real news which is fox. Unlike CNN

[@GianlucaBerger]

Luke Binno Yes. CNN are just Republican haters. They don’t report on news they’re too busy calling Conservatives Nazis

[@uwuhehe6900]

ViDeO gAmEs CaUsE vIoLeNcE

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

Tell them an aircraft "stalled" and they assume the engines failed and then they assume it fell like a rock

[@fighter5583]

I so freaking hate it when I hear that.

[@Nangleator22]

That one is ineradicable. Drives me out of my mind.

[@lordpreminger]

Bruh wings are there for a reason, the plane glides down i still can’t believe some people don’t know this

[@emeraldqueen1994]

Pablo Gonzalez 🤦‍♀️ people need to learn that you CAN recover from a stall (face palm directed at news people who don’t know facts ✈️ “this is a plane” VS fiction 🎠 “this is a plane”)

[@emeraldqueen1994]

ziemniak_online show the Air Crash Investigation episode for Air Canada 143 (Gimly Glider) or US Airways 1549 (Miracle On the Hudson) EDIT the movie Sully is pretty accurate too if you’d prefer that... I’m hoping that the Gimly Gilder gets an accurate to life movie someday...

[@austinformedude]

#8 - Every "Small" plane is a Cessna!

[@golvic1436]

and every jet is a 747.

[@ukar69]

You mean Jumbo

[@larsfreeburg1535]

Brandon Bosserman I thought every jet was an A320...

[@Karuiko]

Cessnas, the toyota of the sky.

[@tocococa7353]

Every Cub Crafters is yellow.

[@flaviomenis3822]

I remember an Italian newspaper reporting about an airliner that suffered a loss of radio contact. "the Boeing was overflying the French Alps". Few lines later: "the Airbus landed safely" :D A lot of journalists seems to believe that words "Airbus" and "Boeing" mean exactly the same thing, synonyms for the word "airliner".

[@musicalaviator]

Flavio Menis jumbo

[@arcturussirius7139]

... facepalm

[@arcturussirius7139]

Also shows you the state of the civil aviation industry

[@call911forcookies2]

a Jumbo Airbus

[@uzbekistanplaystaion4BIOScrek]

never heard of the popular Airboeing A777-300? :P

[@lockheedmartin1968]

9. Calling a taxiway a runway **triggered avgeeks coming**

[@Tmanaz480]

I think Harrison Ford did that.

[@dronefox2619]

Tmanaz480 landing on a taxiway will now forever be known as “pulling a Harrison Ford”

[@fighter5583]

*immensely triggered*

[@ThePlaneguys]

Air Canada at SFO incoming

[@emeraldqueen1994]

Lockheed Martin I’ll join you... how many pitch forks do you want?

[@georgepeach5430]

Oh my gosh! This one cracked me up! As a member of a large law enforcement agency, I was once told, when it comes to talking to the media, "Remember kid, most of the media is not looking for the truth, they are looking for a story." That statement would certainly ring true in this excellent video!

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Well said.

[@cringeworthyhumans160]

Oh boy, I love that twin engine prop duster sitting on the sweltering tarmac with 400 passengers

[@over00lordunknown12]

What?

[@griffinh.966]

I think it's sarcasm. We should make a sarcastic faunt.

[@philchia4764]

#propduster

[@Epic_Gamer__]

*this is the sarcasm font*

[@cheeky_emz]

Profile picture explains it all

[@forgotten1369]

So this is the aviation version of "fully semi automatic"

[@sontang5621]

WHAT DID HE JUST SAY?

[@Lanzottv]

Lmao 😂💀

[@ONE-cw3eh]

Cnn general

[@benrinehart6826]

Exactly

[@sontang5621]

@Kissalude i know, i just wanna go with the lines of the angry cop. Guessed no one got it. :/

[@jm08a31]

Wait, did they just call a *CESSNA 172* a "Twin-Engine plane?" so **triggered** right now.

[@dylancotton2061]

Hyper IKR. RIP fact checking

[@griffinh.966]

TWIN ENGINE PLANES HAVE 2 ENGINES. NOT 1. 2

[@griffinh.966]

@EveryThingGalaxyZ Yes.

[@griffinh.966]

@EveryThingGalaxyZ I know, I was just emphasising the fact that they need to check their facts.

[@griffinh.966]

@EveryThingGalaxyZ Thanks.

[@canadianplanespotter]

If I had $1 for every time I heard "Tarmac" in the news, I could buy a 45-year old private jet.

[@Cragified]

I suspect Tarmac is lingo picked up in WWII and imported to the U.S. Tarmac is a trademark of brand of material used to make a Tarmacadam road,apron,runway in the UK from 1882. Many airfields during the war where constructed of this material and style as it was quick to build compared to concrete. Tarmac is essentially asphalt using natural tar instead of bitumen from refineries which in the UK is known as Bitmac instead of asphalt. Tarmacadam is dark black and stays dark black far longer then asphalt which greys over time. So I'd hypothesize that U.S. aircrews, Army Engineers and such came back from the war knowing the airfields where made of Tarmac and that the dark black aprons, taxiway and terminal areas of U.S. airfields made out of cheaper asphalt just sorta stuck on being called 'tarmac' even though it has no actual reference to a specific place on the airfield. So ironically in a round about way the media is technically correct calling all those things the tarmac cause they are/where :P

[@JamesJesseGTA]

Cragified I guess that's why I occassionally referred to aprons as tarmacs. Wow. I always wondered where I got the term from. Now I know. It's funny considering I am an aircraft mechanic. I feel really embarassed now.

[@theofetter2935]

so true

[@Jopanaguiton]

Flying7B2 FF does not replace a flight plan. If you had an electric failure resulting in a fire onboard. You just lost comm and you have to put that plane down in the middle of the dessert. TRACON will not automatically launch a search and rescue for you.

[@CJetsPlanespotting]

*T A R M A C*

[@brimopm]

34yrs as an airline pilot, I can only say thank you. To see the way the media portrays aviation events from general aviation to scheduled airlines, I like to say they get about 95% of it wrong. I often question the media's stories about other industries simply due to their lack of credibility regarding ours.

[@AndreySloan_is_a_cnut]

Thank you! As a professional pilot as well (both airline and corporate), I’ve been saying this exact same thing for years. Anyone who thinks they are getting even remotely accurate information from the media is a fool.

[@RustyClam]

Makes you realize everything else the media gets wrong.

[@nklssth9614]

If I got a dollar For every time I've heard a news guy tell an aviation story correctly I could buy something that is free

[@tommylynch7887]

Dude I got a dollar for every time they told a false story I’m a billionaire now

[@tylerb1310]

Tommy Lynch no, you’re a quadrillionare

[@tsunova5530]

Tommy Lynch nah u a septillionare

[@JohnDoe-fr1id]

So, you couldn't at all?

[@tomatosauce3085]

John Doe r/areyoustupid

[@douglasrodrigues332]

There is no requirement to file a flight plan for non-instrument flying, anymore than there is a requirement to call the Highway Patrol before driving on a freeway.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Douglas Rodrigues I knew a guy who always called the highway patrol before driving on the freeway. He'd taunt them by saying, "Come and get me suckers!"

[@Rindiculousfun]

Unless you’re crossing the border and then a flight plan is required including a bunch of other documentation

[@arcadictic]

@@heronimousbrapson863 filing a ground plan lmao

[@Hedgeflexlfz]

"Highway patrol, N458SP 5 miles south on I-95 driving for pleasure on a Sunday morning. OVER."

[@lylestrachan5757]

yea....

[@chickenwang8441]

What really triggers me though is when the media introduces somebody to explain something in aviation but then THEY get it wrong.

[@yorface8402]

7/11 was a part time job

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Ha. Haven't heard that one yet.

[@yorface8402]

Friendly Skies Film I stole that from someone

[@KudosK42]

YOR FACE 7/11 *is* a part time job. This joke is shit

[@bloxiagamer3907]

Go to 1134

[@asophagoosegaming2087]

Friendly Skies Film Have you heard of the 9/11 tho

[@zachj3483]

A couple days ago there was an incident with a TBM 700, and it was on the news for a short story. They called it, "this single engine Cessna was flying without a flight plan, and had catastrophic failure of the landing gear. Causing it to not retract, and the plane was forced to land on the tarmac without its landing gears. I'm dead ass it was funny af, the pilot and passenger were OK

[@judet2992]

Bruh if they couldn’t retract it then they had to land with them down.

[@firstname9954]

@@judet2992 either a typing error by OP,or the media are even dumper than we give them credits for xD

[@judet2992]

@@firstname9954 both?

[@Happymali10]

We took a class trip to a small airfield (gliders, gyrocopters and a few single-engine planes, not even a paved strip), and the pilot some of us flew with in a glider told us that it's really safe, because "even if the media might speculate it, gliders can't have engine failures"

[@ultradeady]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Livedracersteve]

News be like....."it's a single engine 747 airbus"

[@atooch213]

a single engine 747 Airbus just made an emergency landing on the tarmac

[@captainprice4261]

Atooch LMFAO

[@psychomom7158]

ALERT: A cessna 747 with 5 propellers has made an emergency landing on the tarmac, after making suspicious chemtrails in the sky. Pray for the families on-board!!

[@billygray8863]

noooo

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

Tuba Player nah it's a cessna 737

[@Quasihamster]

Not all hope is lost: They didn't call Crescent Beach a tarmac!

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

haha

[@Demonslayer20111]

they did call a single engine a twin engine though

[@sheevone4359]

What about Barra airport ?

[@JohnRyan-vl7gu]

Hey there I'm John Ryan5367 I noticed your channel is very low on subs. I was thinking. sub for sub. Do you want to be friends on KZbin. We can grow toghter if you want.

[@philipmcniel4908]

lol Barra blurs the lines between beach and tarmac...unless by tarmac you literally mean tar-bound Macadam XD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam#Tar-bound_macadam

[@volk6019]

Plane : A380 lands normally Media : a Boeing 380 crashed on tarmac

[@FBI-ej8zr]

hello fellow agent

[@jordandino417]

What the f*ck did I just read?

[@StratocastRS]

Don't forget the seven-seventy-seven!!

[@thejman3489]

"Who would drive a car from 1965, right?" Tell that to my friend who drives a blue 1961 Ford Comet. The thing is a beauty and still runs on the original engine.

[@bluerider7922]

Mercury Comet. Mr. Tsubaki said it's all in the details. The Ford was a Falcon.

[@judet2992]

Wow.

[@KastaRules]

250 people are still waiting on the *tarmac* for their take off clearance.

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

haha

[@jaspervlogt3843]

till today i thought tarmac really existed, and i would have defined it as the Parking and taxiing area of a large airport, that is not the taxiways. Taxiways being the Narrow taxiing streets.

[@steel_dejones8648]

KastaRules when a plane crashes on the the ramp TARMAC SAVAGE

[@thegreencactus6072]

KastaRules Maybe they can't just read their 5 light PAPI

[@morgancook4288]

KastaRules What they don't realize is that there still in the parking lot.

[@josephy9970]

Breaking News: An Airbus 777-XWB Has crash landed in LAX, Texas, at August 21st, 2075 on the tarmac.

[@Brandon-yz5rk]

HE WAS GOING TO SFO IN AUSTRALIA THAT COLD SUMMER NIGHT WHEN SUDDENLY THE AUTOPILOT. *DISCONNECTS*

[@MrScoopoo10]

skylerelax I was gonna say that 😔

[@benapsley9552]

Reporters also tend to get aircraft wrong. For example, a reporter might call a 747 a 757.

[@fulcrum2951]

Ben Apsley airboeing 320

[@Tommy-gk6bh]

Ben Apsley a single engine prop Cessna Boeing airbus 474 all black military supersonic fully automatic bump stock ar-15 TURBOJET. WITH GUNS.

[@wmfife1]

Has everyone here forgotten the golf course landing by Harrison Ford? In his Ryan PT-22 ("...It is a vintage FIGHTER Plane...") - unquote. (via- Fox aka FAUX News) ..?

[@spaniardo8565]

Ben any aircraft bigger than a turboprop is a fukin jumbo

[@eltfell]

The 747 is the only airliner that exists.

[@EUC-lid]

The tarmac is a great place to sit and deeply inhale some chemtrails while watching emergency landings.

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Same. Everyday.

[@sheevone4359]

Adam Jordan true 👍

[@snowgolem6099]

Lol nice joke! BTW how do people come up with this stuff??

[@Abdullah.Mizban]

Adam Jordan 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@HarryBalzak]

Sure is. www.scientificamerican.com/article/cloud-seeding-china-snow/ www.geoengineeringwatch.org/links-to-geoengineering-patents/

[@Busdriver321]

I remember a news report about an Embraer 145 having to evacute its passengers on the “tarmac” and the reporter stated that the crew had deployed emergency slides. This was news to me, I had no idea my company had installed inflatable slides on our planes. FYI the E-145 doesn’t actually have slides, it is low enough to the ground that you can just jump out.

[@pulsifide]

*Oil Temp Light* Pilot: Oh, Hello. "Toronto Center C-GSAR You Like To Turn Right 210 For Full Stop Runway 21 at The Island" Local News: A Single Engine Plane Is Making An Emergency Landing At Pearson Airport! Pilot: Ah! How Did you get on my plane! News Reporter: I will now try to Fly Myself *Squawk 7500*

[@bungusscrungus2523]

seems like something CBC would do

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Accurate.

[@acarrot9868]

Pulsifide Pilot gets united airlinesed off the planes f16s gets scrambled

[@calebnetterville3941]

*F-16s arrive*

[@rifqibacksin4063]

*SQUAWK 7500* So the news reporter hijacked the plane?

[@williamchin9483]

Every aviation news report ever: BREAKING NEWS A JETBLUE BOEING A380 HAS MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AT BOSTON'S LAGUARDIA AIRPORT. Keep these videos coming!

[@_Andrew2002]

It's funny cause it's true

[@ZicajosProductions]

William Chin Lol three aviation errors in one sentence.

[@VoraciousAvgeek]

Hahaha that made my day xD An emergency landing this afternoon by a jumbo jet, here you can see pictures of the damaged motor of the big Cessna 172 jet.

[@jaspervlogt3843]

You forgot: and is now waiting on the tarmac for the fire crews.

[@dalecooper9942]

AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH

[@reidcollinson2074]

My dad used to drive ambulance on the island of haida gwai in british Columbia. One day he got a call saying a plane had run off the runway. He went into panic mode. Tiny town meant 1 ambulance only, and the end of the runway was the ocean. He got there and the wheels had juuuuuust gone into the gravel. Absolute panic and horror for no reason

[@EightBall]

To be honest, once you become knowledgeable about a subject, you realise the media coverage about said subject is most of time just terrible. They're more concerned about being the first one to report something than reporting it properly. And then we end up in a situation like the one we have today...

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Right? I always wonder how bad the content is for other industries that I personally never think about.

[@givmi_more_w9251]

Well, in my experience, Science was not the favourite subject in school for most journalists. That's why they became journalists. Technology, physics ... almost everywhere you want jump right into a propeller when you read about it by common media. Not talking about specialized media, of course.

[@hunterjones9822]

The media is the original form of clickbait

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Woah. That was very insightful.

[@fulcrum2951]

Not wrong

[@X150t]

They didn't use to be so bad, but it seems all credibility is lost today

[@TheblueTraxxasRustler]

Not clickbait but the facts are off and information can be wrong but some reporters get it perfect

[@asliceofcheese7152]

What is happening to humanity

[@agentgingerman]

"Boeing 747 loses a single engine mid flight" Ooh emergency landing (Despite the fact you can fly a 747 on only 2 out of 4 engines)

[@lance_the_avocado9492]

It’s probably better to have an emergency landing because losing a literal engine is still not good.

[@clayel1]

Glimple Bort yeah, but that would probably be a pan-pan and not a mayday call

[@jacobabbott1949]

@@clayel1 depends on how bad the loss of engine control is. If there is fire or the engine was completely ripped of then I would call emergency but if it just stopped working I would call a pan pan.

[@clayel1]

Jacob Abbott well an emergency is a mayday and a pan-pan but you’re right if the engine was ripped out or caught on fire that would definitely be a mayday

[@EsarsiYT]

nope , b747 cant fly with 2 engines

[@chemiegamerpeter]

Plane: 4 engines, 2 floors, 4 main landing gears , KLM News: HERE YOU CAN SEE A AIRBUS A737

[@CheeseTruffles]

Chemiegamer Peter + Max

[@teemsmeek]

@@CheeseTruffles Lol.

[@Guardrailkid]

Did they mean 737 with my cat inside and some add on engines?

[@cofepaper9484]

And there is also a Boeing a320 KLM airplane

[@dopepopeurban6129]

Active Runway u mean the Bombardier SR20 JumboJet ?

[@phxJohn2010]

If memory serves, tarmac is the popular name for the building material called tarmacadam. Beginning in 1909 it was used to create roads and eventually early airstrips. However, it was pretty quickly phased out in favor of asphalt.

[@jdb47games]

Technically, asphalt and tarmac are indeed different, but in everyday use they are synonyms. Asphalt is the more common word in USA/Canada, whereas in most other anglophone countries the word tarmac predominates.

[@EK-zu3by]

The developer of tar roads: Scotisch engineer John mc'Adam.

[@blueshark7385]

There was a news reporter talking about an Avro Lancaster and Supermarine Spitfire flypast, but she described it as "one big plane with two smaller planes beside it"

[@Racko.]

Breaking news: a Boeing a330 Dreamliner crash landed at Boston’s jfk airport!

[@brynmcdougald2418]

And it hit the tarmac

[@theamazingparkerC]

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!

[@m0w0ss]

On the tarmacc

[@h-hhh]

@@theamazingparkerC shyt the hrixk up nörmmi

[@mymdBoeing-ie2kn]

Lmao

[@SpikiM2]

To be fair, they never know what they're talking about

[@fulcrum2951]

They know, but they just bloody ignore it

[@syan7558]

My favorite was during the Hudson ditching, a so called "aviation expert" called the Airbus a320 clearly floating in the water, wings and tail exposed, a "regional jet of some sort, an Embrear or maybe a Bombadier".

[@jeffmorris8872]

Our local news did this one. A pilot had engine trouble and he safely landed in an empty field. He is a CFI and teaches part of ground school. He is a consummate professional and has been flying for many many years. "A plane crash landed into a field!" A bunch of us gave the news source a hard time over that one. Must have been a slow news day.

[@Vsor]

7:32 "This may resemble a black-box since they are frequently painted yellow or orange." I get it, but still...

[@j.sterling9167]

Having worked at an Airport for 5 years, there is one thing that should be known. When any incidents occur within the fenced perimeter of an airport, the story takes on two versions. The truth, (inside the fence) what the workers who have access have witnessed and know of and the ( outside the fence ) version, a modified version designed not to panic the public too much.

[@jordanperschke1468]

*Taxi to runway 17L via tarmac alpha*

[@krishnannarayanan8819]

noooooooooooooooo

[@Tmanaz480]

@Rata 4U ... dictionaries merely report how words are used, they don't dictate.

[@terrainaheadpullup3092]

@Rata 4U The correct terms are Runways Taxiways Aprons Stands

[@Mgl1206]

My eye twitched. Ouch

lmao best comment

[@hobie1613]

I always laugh when news reporters say the runway numbers wrong like they will say thirty but it is actually pronounced three zero😂

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

lol good one!

[@jaspervlogt3843]

but well i guess, thats forgiveable

[@Stoney3K]

Or the classic: "Toronto Central, American 9372 descending TO two-seven thousand feet."

[@ascherlafayette8572]

Plane: has problem Media: *it's free real estate*

[@slavboii420]

Media: A boeing A380 has crashed on the tarmac, everyone survived. Reality: An Airbus A380 has landed successfully on the runway. Media: An Airbus 747 has crashed on the runway after "stalling" Reality: A Boeing 747 has done an emergency landing and slightly veered to the taxiway Give me more suggestions if you can find!

[@CJetsPlanespotting]

Aircraft goes around and lands again? "Emergency landing." Thunderstorm causes aircraft to divert? "Emergency landing." Bird strike causes aircraft to divert, and lands safely? "CRASH LANDING HOLY SH*T!!!"

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Very accurate.

[@ariltherandomguyonyoutube5220]

CJets Welcome to the Media!

[@loganb7059]

CJets the media needs to go by this general rule for what a crash landing is: a crash landing is a landing from which you cannot take off again on your own power.

[@gorillaau]

CJets ""

[@sonnder]

Tarmac and Jalad, at Tanagra.

[@72bable]

Shaka. When the walls fell.

[@PythonRaptor]

This is the best thing I've read all day.

[@EnDSchultz1]

Oh my god, thank you. Have a cookie.

[@billygray8863]

thank you sonnder, Fresh, Python Raptor and EnDSchultzs. made my day.

[@bigtxbullion]

very very well done!!! this comment is for an elite group. engage.

[@pax0037]

This is the truest video on the aviation sector in media. We can thank Simple flying for giving the community reliable updates and news articles on aviation mishaps and accidents. Great video!

[@GlacialLake]

I notice that the media gets things wrong on topics that I know a lot about. Why should I trust them on things I dont know much about?

[@benjwgarner]

People often do, presumably because of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. It's a term coined by Michael Crichton, mainly known for being the author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park: web.archive.org/web/20061030220418/www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches/speeches_quote03.html "Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.) Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia." - Michael Crichton

[@kekke2000]

You shouldn't blindly trust anything. If you are interested in a news story, educate yourself and try to stay off any source with an agenda, which is WAY easier said than done, everyone seems to have an agenda nowadays.

[@KrisMcCool]

*landing gear door collapses* People in the cabin : AHHAHAHAHAHHHYSSHNCHDBHUSGXBSIYENDNSJWHDMSGBAHWNXNJSJD Pliot : What happened? Co Pliot : IDK man the passengers are screaming

[@AN-xq7tw]

Me: "Media, can we have taxiway?" Media: "We have taxiway at home." At home: "tarmac"

[@KimberKat]

5:43 Why'd you even reverse the footage?

[@deanbeach1828]

loooooooooool

[@LightRealms]

XDDDD

[@warwickryan7130]

That footage is from Australia, that's how children run in the southern hemisphere.

[@ZicajosProductions]

Warwick Ryan lol

[@1dgram]

To avoid KZbin's content ID?

[@Ren-py6gr]

Media: a Boeing A380 makes a mysterious trails up in the sky

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

Ren 54 holy shit it's a UFO airbus 777

[@korysworld8113]

lol was the Boeing part intentional?

[@wmfife1]

Well on the brighter side it means they weren't a climate-change denier. Because that's what those chemicals do - create a protective layer to filter the sun's UV rays to keep the earth cool. (..For further details, send $10 in a self-addressed stamped envelope the address below:)

[@ac283.9]

*_Los Angeles JFK Airport_* So, LAXJFK it seems yeah. XD

[@dhtelevision]

Ren 54 Those trails are called contrails

[@bryandwyer2204]

Random dude: Excuse me sir, where do you work? Me: The airport. Random dude: I'm sorry, I thought you were a mechanic. Me: I am.

[@Fadamor]

"Tarmac" IS related to aviation, but there aren't many airfields still using it. It's been around since 1902 and is a registered trademark for macadam that has been mixed with tar (TAR + MACadam = TARMAC). Back in WWII most airfields used it for runways, taxiways, and aprons. Now most airfields use concrete.

[@jwenting]

rather most use asphalt, or a combination of asphalt and concrete.

[@ifly7777]

For aviation lovers, the amount of CRINGE everytime the reporters got something wrong 100010101010% high

[@lucasbottorff8641]

so true

[@snowgolem6099]

True!

[@diegoarpino2080]

Tell me about it. My parents don't want me to become a pilot, and they know not to always believe everything on the news, but when something aviation related happens, they will always use that as a reason about why I shouldn't become a pilot.

[@peterproductions5015]

@@diegoarpino2080 Your parents must be like, "THE NEWS SAID A BOEING A380 CRASH TAKEOFFED ON THE TARMAC!"

[@diegoarpino2080]

Peter Productions kind of 😂

[@ipadize]

"Today Tarmac crashed into a Plane"

[@harrymallory7963]

Good luck with that. Im still waiting for the media to correctly and honestly report an incident involving a firearm or anything concerning the military. Lets face it: The media isnt interested in accuracy, they're interested in drama and political agenda. Its not so much journalism as much as activism today. The uniformed viewer mostly trusts that the media knows what its talking about and treats them as an authority, the media knows that and is happy to take on the mantle without concern that it doesnt fit. So endeth the lesson.

[@cpufreak101]

Harry Mallory mhm, such as the famous "the AR in AR-15 means assault rifle!" All the media does is just make stuff sound dramatic so they can get it on the screen

[@andrewpinedo1883]

Very well said. My family is way too leftist to realise this is the same for all media regardless of politics. It even feels bad that American news is so heavily biased that I have to use the terms 'right-wing news' and 'left-wing news'. Whenever some right-wing news channel makes a mistake, then 'they are dummies and it is all fake'. When a left-wing news channel makes a mistake, then 'its a small mistake and no big deal'. Is the news information or entertainment? Sadly, there is nothing we can do, since a sensational story rife with error makes so much more money than a boring fact-checked one.

[@harrymallory7963]

@@andrewpinedo1883 Right, and they make sure that any negative news or criticism of democrat politicians or their policies comes from Republicans or conservatives or, as from a Newsweek story I just read "MAGA republicans" just so they can pretend to their audience that all this is just partisan politics and that any opposition of some of their idiotic policies could only come from those "extremists" and average people should avoid taking their complaints seriously.

[@lethaldarkness115]

I haven't seen so many comments on your videos before.

[@bencooper6109]

Squshy turtle 115 I

[@fulcrum2951]

Tarmac

[@tyler9703]

It's the same with cars as well. Whenever anything gets technical, the media butchers the hell out of it.

[@alphafoxtrot787]

Don't forget Tomonews, i watched their video about the incident from Barcelona Airport, the aircraft involved is A340 and a 767 but tomonews showed an A380 with 1 deck and the UT Air 767 one was kinda good i got to tell except for that A340

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Oh god yes. They're terrible.

[@peachworks_en]

Tomonews tells inaccurate info with horrible animation and exaggerated opinions. I hate them.

[@alwinpriven2400]

how can they show an A380 with 1 deck!? how does that even look like?

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

It's also just... weird and unsettling :P

[@alphafoxtrot787]

I know right, it's just "plane" stupid

[@aboriani]

The journalist job is to explain something he doesn’t understand to someone who doesn’t know

[@jacobdaniel6135]

Hold up I saw a Civil Air patrol Cessna-182 somewhere in there!!!

[@nethascotx24]

At 9:54 there was a non flight planned, non black boxed, unlicensed student making an emergency landing on the Tarmac in a Cessna A380-1!!!

[@kingtoria]

I am the cessna

[@ZZstaff]

Your final comments were correct, indicating that news media focus on sensation. Another thumbs up.

[@Tmanaz480]

I'm old enough to remember when that wasn't true. Broadcasters used to consider news a public service obligation and a cost center. Some time in the 70s local stations and networks decided it needed to turn a profit, so ratings replaced longstanding standards of newsworthiness. Producers no longer asked "do our viewers NEED to hear this".

[@chadnga8]

This is a great video! Very factual and points out a lot that most people who aren't into aviation, wouldn't know, or have any reason to know. Well done!

[@srilankanflyer1999]

I always have to correct my friend when ever I show a pic of a B747 and then he says “oh it’s a B474” 😂😂

[@meganthai1998]

Lucky for you... my friend called a plane's engine a fuselage.

[@srilankanflyer1999]

@@meganthai1998 😂🙏

[@donsample1002]

In common usage "tarmac" just means a paved surface. While there is a specific trademarked paving process called "Tarmac" which isn't used all that much anymore, it was once quite common, and people got in the habit of calling any paved surface "tarmac" rather than going out and looking to see what sort of paving it was.

[@anomamos9095]

Don Sample. I don't know if Tarmac was ever a proprietary name or just the name give to the formula of tar fly ash and gravel that was used to pave roads driveways and often used on small landing strips and aprons even today. Many airfields were completely paved in Tarmac until the weight of the aircraft grew too heavy and required concrete runways etc. so Tarmac was a common term for the paved area of an airfield that's still used when the specific location is not known.

[@kt.7257]

Been in aviation most of my life I'm 57 never have heard anyone in the industry refer to the ramp as a "tarmac" except the so called news media and for that matter the ramp has never been paved either, we always called a paved surface asphalt. must have been before my day.

[@alexandrews48]

Kelly Tipton in the UK we call all asphalt, tarmac so most English pilots would say tarmac instead of asphalt. If you were to ask an English man what our roads are made from its "tarmac" and they may complain because the "road is closed to be re-tarmaced". If someone here were to call it asphalt they would get odd looks or we would assume they are American. Its a simple translation. Why US news media is calling it tarmac is beyond me but in the UK it just means the plane was waiting on any asphalt or hard standing part of the airport.

[@whatyousaidbud]

Alex Andrews actually fella, Tarmac is a company name, they used to lay tarmacadam years and years ago, but these days nowhere uses tarmacadam because the main ingredient, tar, is no longer available as it was produced by town gas factories as a byproduct, the last town gas factory shut in 1973, what we use to surface roads these days is a bitumen based product, bitumen of course is an oil based substance this is why petrol stations are concreted as petrol/diesel eats away at the bitumen. Sorry to go full nerd but information is power! :-)

[@hunterk7838]

Either way it's just called a ramp.

[@dirtcop11]

My all-time favorite error is "the airliner was rammed by a private plane." In most cases, the airliner overtook the light plane. I have yet to see a Cessna 150 or a Piper Cherokee flying faster than a jet. P.. S. if you ever see that happen, let me know.

[@AeroAdventuresFlying]

A bit ago a SR22 had a spin and they pulled the parachute, no one was hurt but the media said that they were practicing “engine off stalls” and couldn’t “restart the engine”, they never turned the engine off and the engine was fine the plane did something funky and put them into a spin they couldn’t correct in time so the pulled the CAPS system.

[@cloutogelevatedtv9000]

Here let me correct your opening line “Let’s face it the media gets a lot wrong.” There we go, much better! :-) other than that though it was an amazing video keep up the good work!

[@kingtoria]

Asphalt on airport: What a lovely day Narrator: But he doesn't know that the media is coming Media: As you can see this Airbus 737 max is making a emergency landing on the tarmac!

[@stalinsdog679]

Media or vloggers be like: we’re on the tarmac.. *the plane is cruising in 35,000 feet

[@jamesfunnell7075]

It pisses me off all the time! Even air crash investigation gets it wrong. Like having 2 throttles in the cockpit when 4 having 4 engines!

[@florichi]

well, maybe the right simulator wasn't available at the date of recording the footage. why bother with such little things when you show it for like 3 seconds in the whole episode?

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

Yeah, that show doesn't piss me off THAT much. I think they try pretty well. I would certainly enjoy making those episodes!

[@TRPGpilot]

James Funnell: unless it is a piston-engined aircraft, those "throttles" in the cockpit are Thrust Levers.

[@frederf3227]

Maybe that's why they crashed, ever think of that?!

[@Ryu1478]

@@FriendlySkiesFilm and the best part of the series for me is the animation of the planes crashing

[@brysonrodden5112]

Some news website from where I live posted on their website a hot air balloon making an “emergency” landing even though it was a perfect landing

[@david1731048]

Members of the public could be forgiven for being nervous or skeptical about aviation safety if their only source of information is the useless media. Ive had minor events at work, for example having a go around, and the local news website proclaims "passengers left terrified as plane aborts landing at the last minute"... ridiculous.

[@TheFlyingReporter]

Some reporters are pilots.

[@williamchin9483]

The Flying Reporter I heard that Sully works for CBS news

[@hempelcx]

That's incorrect. Some pilots are reporters. Pilot always comes first. :p

[@bluemountain4181]

Much to the disappointment of the pilot's wife...

[@hempelcx]

The honor of being married to a pilot is thanks enough. Also, some pilots have husbands.

[@ryanm.191]

The Flying Reporter lol

[@8epic819]

me before watching: hmm i might look into becoming a news reporter me after: *I would make a great news reporter!*

[@zitogaming1457]

I have to say this video was very respectful in terms of aviational knowledge and information towards others with interest or curiosity about aviation, bravo.

[@iiqxcc7257]

Me: **shows friend a picture of the Endeavour space shuttle** Friend: Is this a concorde?

[@SK_FTBL08]

I got so angry on how wrong the news was to the point where I once stoped watching aviation related news and ordinary people's social media posts on aviation. This video shows it all.

[@geoffreylee5199]

My favourite came from US tv station when the female announcer said: the train tried turning to avoid hitting the truck …

[@hunterfagan6272]

It is so cringey seeing people on the news talking about aviation

[@jetfrostgaming]

True that man. About to solo in 4 days and this crap gets me so heated

[@hunterfagan6272]

JetFrostGaming good luck on your solo!! It feels really good.

[@jetfrostgaming]

Thanks man! Just so retarded these people on the news think they know what they're talking about.

[@geisterfurz007]

Good luck! You got that!

[@jetfrostgaming]

Thanks geister

[@JasontheFolf]

Holding pattern: *Exists* Media: Is this a mysterious circling plane?

[@FBI-ej8zr]

i bet its spraying chemtrails as well

[@imsociallyawkward1612]

I bet it will later do an emergency landing on tarmac 44F

[@Southwest_923WR]

Great video! It needs to be shared to EVERY news outlet, maybe they wouldn't get there panties in bunch so quickly if a aircraft lands in a crosswind, or taxies to RAMP after a bunny landing!

[@G__Brtz]

Tarmac Place where media gets in panic on a airport

[@LightRealms]

45 seconds into the video and I can already tell this video is gonna be hilarious

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

I try :)

[@srilankanflyer1999]

Ladies and getting welcome aboard this 50 year old B747 we hope you enjoy ur flight Passenger 🏃🏻‍♂️

[@alonelyz1981]

Pilot : This plane will likely has a higher chance of crashing since its old

[@aviationchannel6204]

I would rush to board that plane! I always wanted to go on old generation 737 and 747.

[@Alexander_Jaelan_Cummings]

Could not like. It had 69 likes 😉

[@Dan-ot9im]

See you on the *TARMAC* some time!

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

hehe ;)

[@jaspervlogt3843]

we could use tarmac as community slang for the airports bar. well then, c ya in the tarmac.

[@seelteem1615]

As an ATC i can say that a representative from an airliner, the pilot, or the controller can declare an emergency, this can be found in the .65

[@Weeklongwind647]

I personally never watch the news. I only watch it to gain info on severe local weather impacts. But I honestly hope they also don't lie about the weather. That can put many people in danger or at risk if they misinform people. I also heard from a friend's parent who was an officer. He said the news even got it wrong about one police chase that he did. The news said it was a fast police chase, though, in reality, it was slow. The news does these things to grab people's attention, but misinformation can be dangerous in case a civilian threat occurs.

[@Sulf3ricAcid]

I'm sure the majority general public doesn't understand/care for the technical terminology that is given up in lieu of the catch-all/incorrect synonym. The media's goal is to outline the story using general terms that the viewers can understand. The media will preference 'tarmac' instead of 'apron' for the same reasons they will preference 'heart attack' instead of 'myocardial infarction' and 'cargo vessel' instead of 'breakbulk carriers.' In a perfect world, it would be an amazing learning opportunity for media to use specific descriptors for stories and reports

[@zachg9065]

“A SMALL SINGLE ENGINE CESSNA.” Shows a beech Baron..

[@kingtoria]

I am a cessna

[@itzdilpickle3679]

Tarmac is a perfectly fine word to use to describe the material in which consists of stone mixed with tar. No, people do not use tarmac to describe the technical part of the airport. but since news reporter do not go through training, tarmac is fine

[@helenasvensson5220]

if there was 1 ryanair landing every time the media said tarmac, there would be more crashes than landings

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

0:33 Souls is the the total number of people onboard (crew + passengers) which is what could cause this discrepancy. In this case though I think it's just a dumb mistake, since a JetBlue A320 is most likely not operated by a 19 strong crew :D

[@FriendlySkiesFilm]

You're the first one to see the improbability of a 19 person crew while making that point! XD

[@phantomphoenix4981]

They also counted the gingers as souls. I as a ginger confirm we do not have souls

[@NetAndyCz]

@@phantomphoenix4981 Yeah, never understood why they ask for souls and not persons on board. You get into all kind of issues how to count gingers or pets. And some people even do not believe in souls.

[@phantomphoenix4981]

NetAndyCz Finally someone get it

[@markmehling5347]

“A Cessna 150 crashed into a cemetery. Rescue workers have found 76 bodies so far and are still searching the site…”

[@Jay-cj7yr]

someone: i have a full size non-flyable harrier the media: WRITE THAT DOWN!!!