Fox: Air Asia flight missing because of metric system

[Luddly Neddite]

Fox News host mocked for speculating that AsiaAir flight went missing because foreign pilots use the metric system

• Anna Kooiman asked airline expert whether differences in Imperial and metric measuring systems cause problems for foreign pilots
• AsiaAir flight went missing this morning over the Java Sea shortly after pilot asked for change in altitude due to sever weather

Published: 17:21 EST, 28 December 2014 | Updated: 19:22 EST, 28 December 2014

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...missing-foreign-pilots-use-metric-system.html
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  A Fox News host has drawn the ire of the internet after speculating on air what could have caused the disappearance of AsiaAir Flight QZ8501.
  
  The flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore went missing early this morning over the Java Sea, shortly after the pilot asked for a change in altitude due to severe weather.
  
  Fox News co-host Anna Kooiman interviewed former FAA spokesperson Scott Brenner about the search for the missing flight Sunday morning, asking the airline industry insider whether foreign pilots were at a disadvantage since they were trained using the metric system.
  
  'Even when we think about temperature, it's Fahrenheit or Celsius,' Kooiman said. 'It's kilometers or miles. You know, everything about their training could be similar, but different.'
  
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  Controversial: Fox News co-host Anna Kooiman (center) sparked criticism on Twitter for wondering whether foreign pilots' use of the metric system could have contributed to the disappearance of AsiaAir flight QZ8501
  
  
  Read more: Fox News host denounced for speculating that AsiaAir flight is missing because foreign pilots use the metric system Daily Mail Online
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We can always count of fox for stupid and/or lying.

 

[mamooth]

There actually was one such case, the Gimli Glider of 1983, when a Canadian pilot miscalculated the fuel loadout due to Canada's recent switch to metric. The 767 ran out of fuel midflight, but they managed to glide it down to an unused airstrip near Gimli, Manitoba.

However, given the whole planet except the USA uses metric now, it's likely only US pilots will have the confusion, or foreign pilots in the USA.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Is the FOX's "War on Inches, Feet and Lbs", or what???

 

[hjmick]

That's pretty dumb...

 

[Statistikhengst]

Indeed, it is... FOX.

 

[RosieS]

That is on a par with "gays will die out because they don't reproduce." (Pat Robertson)

Regards from Rosie

 

[Luddly Neddite]

When fox is not lying, they're getting it wrong.

Or sometimes they like to mix it up and do both at once.

 

[Pogo]

I can see where she was going. The idea that there may be pilots out there confusing metric and English measurements and losing planes is fear candy, and that is after all Fox Noise's main product --- fear.

Just look at the caption on the screencap: "Considered "pioneer" in cheap travel to Asia" --- implying that somehow being "cheap" means they can follow cheaper safety rules.

They never let up, these Fox Noise makers.

 

[Statistikhengst]

I can see where she was going. The idea that there may be pilots out there confusing metric and English measurements and losing planes is fear candy, and that is after all Fox Noise's main product --- fear.

Just look at the caption on the screencap: "Considered "pioneer" in cheap travel to Asia" --- implying that somehow being "cheap" means they can follow cheaper safety rules.

They never let up, these Fox Noise makers.

Yes, ginning up fear is one of the first tactics on the to-do lists of: fascists.

 

[Politico]

When fox is not lying, they're getting it wrong.

Or sometimes they like to mix it up and do both at once.

You must get along like peas in a pod.

 

[Yurt]

i like how puddly blames an entire network for the comment of one person

dumbass

 

[blastoff]

Fox News host mocked for speculating that AsiaAir flight went missing because foreign pilots use the metric system

• Anna Kooiman asked airline expert whether differences in Imperial and metric measuring systems cause problems for foreign pilots
• AsiaAir flight went missing this morning over the Java Sea shortly after pilot asked for change in altitude due to sever weather

Published: 17:21 EST, 28 December 2014 | Updated: 19:22 EST, 28 December 2014

• 112 shares
  
  317
  
  
  View comments
  
  
  A Fox News host has drawn the ire of the internet after speculating on air what could have caused the disappearance of AsiaAir Flight QZ8501.
  
  The flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore went missing early this morning over the Java Sea, shortly after the pilot asked for a change in altitude due to severe weather.
  
  Fox News co-host Anna Kooiman interviewed former FAA spokesperson Scott Brenner about the search for the missing flight Sunday morning, asking the airline industry insider whether foreign pilots were at a disadvantage since they were trained using the metric system.
  
  'Even when we think about temperature, it's Fahrenheit or Celsius,' Kooiman said. 'It's kilometers or miles. You know, everything about their training could be similar, but different.'
  
  Scroll down for video
  
  
  
  
  
  +2
  
  Controversial: Fox News co-host Anna Kooiman (center) sparked criticism on Twitter for wondering whether foreign pilots' use of the metric system could have contributed to the disappearance of AsiaAir flight QZ8501
  
  
  Read more: Fox News host denounced for speculating that AsiaAir flight is missing because foreign pilots use the metric system Daily Mail Online
  Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

We can always count of fox for stupid and/or lying.

Speaking of stupid or lying, please oh stupid and lying one tell us exactly where in your link it says Fox claimed the flight is "missing because of metric system."

Thanks, dumbass.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I can see where she was going. The idea that there may be pilots out there confusing metric and English measurements and losing planes is fear candy, and that is after all Fox Noise's main product --- fear.

Just look at the caption on the screencap: "Considered "pioneer" in cheap travel to Asia" --- implying that somehow being "cheap" means they can follow cheaper safety rules.

They never let up, these Fox Noise makers.

Yes, ginning up fear is one of the first tactics on the to-do lists of: fascists.

So now Fox is a bunch of Fascists? Hurry now come along and claim you never made any such statement.