east village idiot

Patrick Smith, author of Ask The Pilot, makes a plea to the media in the wake of yesterday’s emergency landing in the Hudson:

While not to downplay the seriousness of what happened — or what could have happened — I will ask the media to please refrain from spinning this accident into too big a spectacle. I’m annoyed by the consistent references to “a miracle.” The pilots did an exemplary job under great pressure, and the results were quite fortunate, but they did what they had to do, and what they were trained to do. To hyperdramatize the event is, I think, to cheapen it, and it disrespects the memories of those in past accidents who were not so lucky. Granted, a jetliner crashing into the Hudson River is going to be, and should be, a major story. But some perspective, please. Nobody was killed.

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