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

**PhilDernerJr** · 2010-02-03, 08:53 AM

Count the errors!

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/leisur ... es?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** · 2010-02-03, 01:33 PM

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

**lijk604** · 2010-02-03, 01:37 PM

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

**moose135** · 2010-02-03, 01:38 PM

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

**Matt Molnar** · 2010-02-03, 02:09 PM

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 last day.

**Ari707** · 2010-02-03, 02:59 PM

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** · 2010-02-03, 05:24 PM

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** · 2010-02-03, 06:06 PM

Now looks like they've removed it completely.

**Tom_Turner** · 2010-02-04, 01:01 AM

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