USA- Plane crashes into building.

I think that it’s not off of the mark for the BBC, a well established voice in news journalism, to querry about this unfortunate incident. The current global climate is on high alert for various obvious reasons (Iraq). I think the trigger reaction for some time after an aircraft incident in the US will be to fear a terrorist attack similar to 9/11. Also, the UK and the US are the leaders in this current coalition, perhaps the BBC saw a hook that the UK is on high alert also.

I would just like to make one last point here. I figured both BBC and Skynews would be UK based. By that token, I really don’t understand why the Beech 200 incident would get more airtime than said Humberside incident. The proprietors of both stations felt it was more important to focus on one event rather than the other. Unless the proprietors are Americans working in the U.K., how could “American influence” motivate them to concentrate on U.S. disasters moreso than local ones? How could the U.S. control what is being aired in the U.K.?

I don’t agree that everything is blown out of proportion. I believe that since September 11th, most countries are on high alert and the media wants to report it’s findings instantaneously – but we shouldn’t pay too much attention to what the media says anyway, they get it wrong much of the time.

The United States is a high-risk country for terrorist attacks and threats have been made. Obviously, when a plane is flown into a building, there is going to be a huge amount of panic and concern over whether or not it is a terrorist attack.

Also, in such a situation, the possibility of it having been a terror-related incident cannot be ruled out.

hiya

Yes the BBC and Sky News are Uk based (london and Milton Keynes respectively (i think!!)), but the point was the only reason it gets aired is because the BBC devoted itself to been a “World Service” to former colonies mostly, and Sky news a “worldwide empire”. The UK is a small market – what proportions of their viewers are overseas based? – i reckon that CNN have more non-american viewers worldwide than Americans bak home

btw nice to have a good debate!!!

Not go where? I pointed out the obvious, plain and simple. Last time I checked, Keypublishing is U.K. based, and about 90% (kind estimate) of the people in here are European. And by my being American, I went to the “nationalistic rut” card? Uh, NO. Again, just pointing out the obvious. For the record, my ethnicity is European, as is indicated by my handle. Therefore, I have a Euro-American point of view. I would never come in here and bash “Euro’s,” considering both my parents and all my aunts and uncles were born in Europe. Of course, if I react to a general statement made towards Americans, I’m going to come across as controversial. Still waiting for where BBC and Skynews are based.

P.S. So good to be back after a long layoff!!!

Greekdude…what I meant by proving Prestons case was that 9/11 has been used by some people in your country to justify a myriad of cases and policies, the sarcasm is a different issue. I am glad that you voice your opinions your way, isn’t that why we are all on here? But please lets not fall into the nationalistic rut
“Euro based forum etc” Lets just not go there.

Humberside is on the east coast of the u.k.If you look at a map of Great Britain go up from East Anglia and the next big inlet is the river humber go west from there and you will find humberside airport.Sorry its a bit basic but i dont know how to post images or maps ?

Interflug, how would my last post make Preston’s case? Because I used sarcasm, Is that why? Therefore, I “blew everything out of proportion,” right? I’m not “lashing out,” I’m just trying to express my opinion just like everyone else. I never once indicated that the events of 9/11 were underestimated by anybody in here nor anywhere else, for that matter. I just merely referred to them as a backdrop of my sarcasm towards the whole “blowing things out of proportion,” card. And by doing that, I’m going away from the mainstream? Come on now!! If I offended anybody by doing that, those were not my intentions. I come across as controversial at times, but so be it. That’s just me, as an American, expressing my opinion in a predominantly Euro based forum. So of course, when topics arise that have some sort of U.S. conotation, I’m going to react. Sometimes more strongly than others. In this case, I took exception to indication that we “blow everything out of proportion.” I just want to clear a few things up here. Where is BBC and Skynews, based? Also, Humberside, where is that?

Ill second that ! Sept 11th blown out of all proportion ? I dont think so.

I have to agree with you Preston, I think you got your post about right there…..Greekdude- no offence but does’nt the tone of your last post more or less make Prestons case? No one on this forum underestimates the terrible events of 9/11 or the effect that they had on the US, but lashing out with sarcasm does’nt help to make your point…..Come on mate, back to the mainstream.

Preston, I am pretty sure that Reuters is headquartered in London, with many offices worldwide.

Greekdude – the september 11th attacks weren’t blown out of proportion, and i dont intend to go into my political views on here, but as the wordls only superpower i believe the United States can hype up media publicity at times to back up some of its foreign policies, and at other times play down acts which have the opposite effect, as all nations do. But in this case the fact that a light aircraft crashed into a building made headline news on BBC News24 and Sky News on the day of itsoccurance – but a crash at Humberside a week ago in which a C421 crashed and killed the student pilot on his exam leading to an airport closure for 24 hours hardly even makes national news coverage.

Just out of interest and i honestly dont know – where is Reuters based as this is basically the standard controller of most world news coverage?

Of course, EGNM, after all, everything is blown out of proportion across the pond in the U.S. Just like when a couple of 767’s plowed into the sides of the twin towers, we blew that out of proportion too, right? Look, contrary to popular believe we don’t “blow everything out of proportion” or “use increased praphenelia” or whatever it is you want to call it. You just hear what your media wants you to, just like we hear what our media wants us to. It’s called propaganda. So let me reiterate, this was not a terrorist act, nor was it EVER REFERRED TO as such in our highly blown out of proportion media.

Hi Greekdude – what i meant was that in the US it may have got a bit of increased paraphanalia by certain sections of the population (poss led by the mayor of Chicago! ;)) as often happens – blown outta proportion basically i meant

Or even (call me a crazy ol fool) could it have been an accident ?

No, EGNM, because I haven’t heard anything all day that would classify it as such. If it was in fact a “mass terrorist attack,” I would have heard over the grapevine several times over that it was. Maybe it was just some stockbroker, who got depressed.

i suppose this will be an outcry of a mass terrorist attack from the start?

According to ABC News it was a Beech 200 King Air (which they describe as a “small plane” :rolleyes: ) which crashed into a sheet metal plant with 5 occupants onboard, all of whom perished.

I heard this too, no reports of any fatalities as of yet, just casualties.