Originally Posted by
yohy?!
Australian Frequent Flyer board has gone into meltdown, perhaps we'll hear shortly from AFFers who may have been on board.
I've been covering and consolidating all the news over for AFF members on QF32 to ensure the most accurate picture, and I believe I may be getting an email from admin there in due course for crashing the boards with traffic
I'm not yet aware of any AFF'ers on board, however some social media aware pax who were on board have been posting information which we'd been collating links to.
I'd copy/paste the details out of the thread, but can't extract it even from my cache at the moment.
Needless to say, my initial take on all of it having read pretty much every news & wire report - is that the wire services (AP & Reuters specifically) got the story monumentally wrong from the outset. They used unreliable local wire services, conflicting reports on the ground, and built a worse case scenario story that wasn't even close to the truth.
The AP wire story was also embarrassing in that it misspelt the name of the airline, adding a U into the name (thankfully which they've since fixed).
It also seems that Reuters may have even fabricated a quote which they claim was made to the news channel CNBC by an official of QF.
All in all, some wire services need a boot in the pants over this. Terrible reporting.