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EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36309492


Why am I so fascinated by this stuff?

You can follow the story as it develops here......


http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/579183-egyptair-804-disappears-radar-paris-cairo.html


Not looking good right now.

It's that weird mix of logically knowing it's a one in a gazillion chance of happening, yet somehow one of (all of our) most immediate and most gut level fears.

On Radio 5 - 50+ people on the French terrorist watch list had air-side access at De Gaulle airport     .....       words fail me!

Probably an easy open goal for the Daily Mail, but doesn't it depend on how easy it is to get on the list? 

Say my cousin blows himself up in Syria, am I on?
Say Jeremy shares a platform with terrorists is he on?
Does Gerry stay on long after he has denounced terrorism?

Obviously we'll have to wait to see if this is the case, but if true, I really fear for Euro 2016, what a target that must be right now.

Not sure if I was listening to the same comment on 5 Live, but what I heard was that, after the Paris attacks, the authorities reviewed the security passes of the c.30,000 staff at CDG and removed airside passes from about 60. There was no mention of these 60 being on a watch-list as such. Either way, it's always best not to take what the media say at face value.

Later in the day (yesterday) I listened to a presenter interview a politician about the BBC's plan to make savings by reducing the amount they spend on SEO for 10,000 recipes. Neither seemed to have a clue about the subject they were discussing. The politician kept repeating "how can it save the BBC money by taking off recipes that are already on the BBC website & paid for by the license fee payers?" whilst the interviewer kept repeating "So tell me what you would cut in order to reduce the BBC's budget?"

Back to the missing Egyptair flight, I heard on the news this morning that "the wreckage located in the Mediterranean was not, in fact, from the missing flight - as had previously been reported". The only sensible comment I've heard so far has been from a retired air crash investigator who said that a) we must be patient, and b) the info released must be accurate rather than quick.

True     ....     but it wasn't a Slimey Snail diatribe purporting to be 'news' - Aunty's R5 does tend to be a darn sight more balanced/accurate than the rubbish daily rags.