Single Seat Piper Cherokee Down In Fresno, CA

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Now, we all have heard new reporters butchering aircraft incidents, but this one takes the cake. They are claiming this is a single engine, single seat, Piper Cherokee... with a tip up canopy and no paint? :rofl:

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=6525580

It is actually a Van's RV-6 with a Ford auto motor converstion. The good news is the 70 year old pilot will live to fly another day.
 
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Any low wing airplane is a Piper Cherokee, any high wing is a Cezzna.
 
Probably his ECi cylinders again.... :yikes:

And that flight plan would have been a lot of help...... :frown2: I'll write ECi and let them know there is another solution!
 
Odd that the report claimed the FAA called it a piper cherokee. I wonder if maybe someone was operating from the database and not the scene. The reporter however said what he saw.
Sort of like calling a a Volkswagen Beetle a Lamborghini. You'd think he would know the difference but he's probably the entertainment reporter.
 
I have come to the realization (my younger daughter is a education major) that reporters DO have the attitude, "I am a reporter, I can report anything".
"I am an educator, I can teach anything"
"I am a lawyer, I can do anything".

Yeah right. How about knowing anything about something?

Their attitude to our criticsm is, "Well, there's the tape. See, I reported it!" It probably was the arts reporter, but who cares? The arts report doesn't know squat about Harold Pinter.....probably never read a thing the guy did....but he/she reports on the play. "See, I reported it!".

Sigh.
 
When evaluating what you get from the mainstream media, just remember: they don't know any more about anything else than they do about aviation.
 
jmaynard said:
When evaluating what you get from the mainstream media, just remember: they don't know any more about anything else than they do about aviation.
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As I've said, I've never had a single case where I had personal knowledge of a story that the reports I read and heard got it more than 75% correct.
 
"The fan uhhh quit turning and then then engine stopped."

LOL!
 
mikea said:
Nope. Any plane too small to need airstairs is a Cessna. You give reporters too much credit.
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No no. It's only a Cessna if it's a single. Multiple engines confuse the reporters. If they see that, it becomes a "turbo-prop" or some such. A single can't be a turbo-prop. Got it?
 
bbchien said:
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"I am a lawyer, I can do anything".

Yeah right. How about knowing anything about something?
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Sigh.
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That has only become prevalent since the predominant degree for lawyers became the Juris Doctorate. Doctor. Get it? :smilewinkgrin:

But really, not all of us are like that, Bruce; I am confused all the time, not sure I can actually do anything. Maybe because I earned a living carrying a toolbag and fixing stuff before I went to law school? :confused:

jmaynard said:
When evaluating what you get from the mainstream media, just remember: they don't know any more about anything else than they do about aviation.
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Jay, that is the key, right there. I apply that same degree of skepticism to anything that they report. I have found, of course, that the accuracy of reporting is directly proportionate to how much I agree with the viewpoint through which the reporting is being filtered.
 
The name of one of the "eye witnesses" in the video name is "Dillbag Banger". LOL!
The FAA says the plane is a Piper Cherokee. A small single engine, single person plane. Early reports from the scene that it was a home built experimental plane were incorrect.
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Yes, they got that right. :rolleyes:
 
SCCutler said:
That has only become prevalent since the predominant degree for lawyers became the Juris Doctorate. Doctor. Get it? :smilewinkgrin:

But really, not all of us are like that, Bruce; I am confused all the time, not sure I can actually do anything. Maybe because I earned a living carrying a toolbag and fixing stuff before I went to law school? :confused:
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Yes, that is the KEY. The Law Schools need to take candidates who have done/accomplished something in another field, FIRST.
Jay, that is the key, right there. I apply that same degree of skepticism to anything that they report. I have found, of course, that the accuracy of reporting is directly proportionate to how much I agree with the viewpoint through which the reporting is being filtered.
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I'll bet that's not quite true, Spike. At least you're self- aware.
 
bbchien said:
Yes, that is the KEY. The Law Schools need to take candidates who have done/accomplished something in another field, FIRST. I'll bet that's not quite true, Spike. At least you're self- aware.
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Not necissarly true. I only worked for 5 months between graduation and law school and had not a clue what the hell I was doing nor do I think I accomplished much of anything other than knowing that I didn't want to do Association Management and Lobbying much longer than the five months I did it. Its a matter of just picking the candidates who are serious about the profession and not making law schools profit centers for univeristies which IMHO they are and just grind em out.


As for reporters Bruce its not the story that matters it that THEY are reporting it.
 
Years ago, one of the local news anchors had his boy in the same scout troop as my kid. After a really bad reporting job, I made the mistake of asking him why they didn't have their helicopter pilot read over any stories having to do with aviation and help them fix inaccurate stories. :frown2:
The blank look I got said it all. I picked a different channel to watch after that.
 
imQ said:
Years ago, one of the local news anchors had his boy in the same scout troop as my kid. After a really bad reporting job, I made the mistake of asking him why they didn't have their helicopter pilot read over any stories having to do with aviation and help them fix inaccurate stories. :frown2:
The blank look I got said it all. I picked a different channel to watch after that.
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Facts? You want Facts, get an encyclopedia, we don't need no steenken Facts. A long time ago a close friend and I were signifcantly involved in a minor college scandal that ended up on the front page of the Detroit News (slow newsday I guess). A UP writer got hold of my friend by phone at his dorm room looking for more on the story. My friend told him: Just make something up, everyone else did" and that's exactly what the guy did.
 
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