Stupid plane!

[eee1313]

Some stupid plane just went off the runway at Midway because it's fucking snowing and all. And they're interrupting Smallville's "Lex-mas" episode for a telephone interview with an eyewitness. Okay, NO ONE who watches Smallville gives a shit about a stupid airplane. Put Lex back on, and Clark and drunken Santa.

Shit. Now I'm gonna have to download this. When the torrent goes up, would someone let me know?

ETA: Okay, now I feel bad, because a little kid got killed. The question remains: why wasn't the flight delayed, or redirected or something because of the snow? deeablo told me she ran into someone who had to come back from O'Hare because flights were cancelled. Why accept inbound planes if it's too dangerous to have outbound planes?

Comments

[bunglegirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it sucks. But when did that become breaking news? NYC gets bombed, the president is shot = breaking news. I hate how reactionary news has been. Is it something that can't wait until the evening news? Probably not.

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

You know, that's what I realized this morning. The reason I was pissy about this last night wasn't because they were interrupting TV for the news. I was upset because they were interrupting TV for the news when they didn't even know the news yet. They couldn't report anything, except that the plane went off the runway, and maybe into the street. They had no specifics, so why spend the time interrupting TV to talk about it? It just seems like another example of the news being all "LOOKOUT! BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING! WE HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!!!" I think I'm just so used to the news media playing Chicken Little for so long that I automatically think they're overreacting to stuff, even when they aren't.

no good.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, so Yakgirl always sort of freaks out whenever landing at Midway, since I feel like you can COMPLETELY see what's for dinner at the houses all around the airport. I feel awful for the family of the boy. Now that I've got a kid, I can't handle those stories. How tragic. And now I've got one more fear-- driving by an airport.

Re: no good.

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

I really don't think you have to worry about driving by an airport. Planes go off runways in bad weather (hell, Air Force One did it down in Champaign), but it's not like this happens on a daily basis or anything.

And yeah, Midway's a bit ... tense ... on the landings, but think of it this way: after this accident, I'm sure they'll make things MUCH more controlled at that airport. It'll probably be even safer from here on out.