Peter Creswick wrote:
Far better to have the club nominate someone to take media calls and
respond to them with simple, quotable, accurate data. "A single seat
glider was involved in a launching accident. The pilot has sustained
leg fractures and has been taken to Adelaide for treatment. The ATSB
will be releasing a report once they've concluded any investigatory
activities they believe should be carried out, until then we cannot
speculate on the cause of the accident without compromising those
investigations." That gives the media everything they need to write
an accurate story with first-hand data.
That is a plausible option worth considering, but lets be sensible
here. How many clubs have a suitable person ? Probably very few, AND
even he may be away, uncontactable etc.
I'm suggesting that it be someone there, on the day. There's all kinds
of accident scene management stuff that someone in charge needs to
organize in the event of Bad Stuff (tm) happening; one of those things
can be to nominate and brief someone who can present either a face, a
voice, or a written statement to the media.
- mark
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