Seriously. Who does Fox News have working over there? Educated recently in one of today's Universities no doubt. What a joke...

American Airlines flight forced to land after electrical order is detected

Published May 19, 2017 Associated Press
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MORRISVILLE, N.C. – An American Airlines flight has made an unscheduled landing at a North Carolina airport after a strong electrical odor was detected on board.


Spokeswoman Katie Cody said Flight 1889 from Charlotte to Hartford, Connecticut, was diverted to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, where it landed safely at 5:01 p.m. Friday.

Cody said three crewmembers were taken to the hospital as a precaution. She said a maintenance crew is evaluating the Airbus 320.

A statement from Raleigh-Durham said six others on the flight were checked out by medical responders, but declined to go to the hospital.

Another American flight diverted on its way to Charlotte. Flight 1866 from Providence, Rhode Island, to Charlotte, reported an engine-related issue en route and diverted to Hartford. No one was hurt.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/...der-is-detected.html

Our local media is just a bad in Baton Rouge.

Umm, it's AP, not Fox News, who did the article, if you had paid close attention.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Umm, it's AP, not Fox News, who did the article, if you had paid close attention.

It's a fair point. But do a Google search and FoxNews is the only website with that illiterate headline.

I'm just messing with you.

But I agree, who are these people who are supposed to be well educated? I mean, the damn title doesn't even make sense, as written.

I understand mistakes happen, even ones like this where you're writing and thinking fast and you write out the word the way it sounds in your mind.

What I don't get is how something like that gets past the proofreaders and makes it to "print." It confounds me.

Anyway, I was just browsing the day's news as I was having my morning baguette and coffee with the in-laws, and that headline just made me shake my head.

Headline typist made a typo and the spell checker put in the word it "thought" was intended. No one caught it.

flashguy

It's not as if this is a unique occurrence, though. I see spelling mistakes in published material all the time.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
It's not as if this is a unique occurrence, though. I see spelling mistakes in published material all the time.

Hardly a spelling mistake.

And it's the headline of the story.

Years ago when first established, MSNBC was based in my town. I ran into many of them. the typical "snowflake" long before that term was in general use, they could barely find their way to work. They whined if they were forced to divert from their normal route due to some incident and thought the world revolved around them.

For a group that claims to support rights, they were the biggest offenders of handicap parking violations. When tagged (which I enjoyed doing) they cried like babies.

So I have no doubt those sending out these articles are any better. Most are probably per diem low paid students like all the rest.

No one in the media proofreads anything today.

They depend entirely on "Spell Check."

"Spell check" only checks the spelling of a word, it has no way of knowing if it's the correct word.

The newspapers are just as bad as the broadcast media.

Sadly, not that long ago the newspapers were extremely diligent about spelling and grammar.

I blame it on the dumbing down of our education system.

The proofreader was fired for textual harassment.

The media in Austin makes dirt look intelligent.

Front page of my local weekly fish wrap this week was an article about an officer being assaulted during a traffic stop. It was the top story in big bold font and they spelled "assaulted" as "assulted".


Kind of makes you wonder if anyone proofreads.

what does electricity smell like anyway?

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Originally posted by radioman:
what does electricity smell like anyway?

If you have smelled it you know. Ozone.

Edgumacated? Who needs that!

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Orguss:
It's not as if this is a unique occurrence, though. I see spelling mistakes in published material all the time.

Hardly a spelling mistake.

And it's the headline of the story.

Is the word misspelled? Then it's a spelling mistake. Doesn't matter where in the article it occurs. A typo is a typo.

Have you ever met an employed Newspaper Editor? It is sad. Of course there are some left in print journalism field. I have not found these sorts of errors in the Wall Street Journal or Time magazine as yet.

My nephew edits for nuclear science publications, so I know there is still a need. The average American is pretty ignorant so they probably never notice this sort of thing.

Look, the story was filed with Fox with a smartphone. Autocorrect struck again.