At the end of the day yesterday, Efe, the Spanish newswire service, was able to release the first real pictures of the airplane that crashed during take-off at Madrid’s Barajas airport.
While the online editions of the main Spanish newspapers were unable to provide quality coverage, today the print editions have consolidated all the noise and nonsense news garbage from yesterday. The stories are excellent, with good infographics such as these selected by INNOVATION’s Chiqui Esteban on his blog.
Jose Luis Orihuela, a Spanish online guru, does the same with some of the best “video animations” on his blog.
Canarias 7 did what a local newspaper has to do in these cases: instead of playing any crazy death numbers bingo, they concentrated their efforts covering many of the families of the 80 dead passengers from Canarias.
Now is the time to ask WHY and WHAT’S NEXT.
The managers of Spanair insisted that their first priority is the injured and the families of the dead people.
Wrong!
Wrong!
Wrong!
This is the priority and responsibility of hospitals, doctors, emergency rooms and social assistance services.
The first priority of an airline company that has more aircrafts like the one that crashed yesterday is to find out WHY this accident happened, and until then ground its fleet.
This is the real story: Spanair, and you and me, and all the possible passengers with an Spanair ticket …
And if they cannot answer these WHY questions, then they ought to be fired.
