Fox News Gallery on Extinct Airlines...Count the Errors!

[PhilDernerJr]

Count the errors!

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/leisur ... es?slide=1 (http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/leisure/2010/02/02/shuttered-airlines?slide=1)

Not necessarily looking to pick at them...I don't expect mainstream media to get it all right when it comes to aviation, but I figured we could make a little game by pointing out what's wrong on their 18 slides.

GO!

[cancidas]

wow. i wonder who's shot of VP-BDJ that is.

[lijk604]

You wonder if anyone checks their work before they post stories like that.
Seriously, a TWA A320?

[moose135]

Hey come on now, Fox is "Fair and Balanced" they never claimed to be accurate! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Matt Molnar]

I don't understand where they got such awful info. Even Wikipedia explains most of these events pretty well.

Also, yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of PeoplExpress's (http://nycaviation.com/2010/02/02/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-february-2nd/) last day.

[Ari707]

TWA did have 50 A 318's on order along with the B717. The order was cancled by American right after the take over

[Mayi757]

It seems like they did a major cleaning up. Did the geeks on a.net called en masse and threatened to crucify the reporter? I just read the related a.net thread and Trump Shuttle, National, etc aren't on the slide show. So they must have changed it.

The only 'error' I see there is the depiction of a TWA A319 and in the newer scheme which is probably the least remembered. Also, "flight 800" is not what TWA is remembered for, maybe it is to the media..

[Matt Molnar]

Now looks like they've removed it completely.

[Tom_Turner]

It was the wrong Frontier Airline pictured as well, (similar to the National error). From what I remember the snippets might've been the work of AP though (unless it was simply all the images that were AP).

Tom