The aviation affairs editor of the Dutch liberal daily. “Handelsblad,” commenting on the Libyan plane disaster, called the pilot “extremely clumsy” in his handing of the plane. A sandstorm, the editor said, may well have hindered a normal landing, but since a sandstorm has “no influence” over a height of three kilometers, it could hardly have affected the plane’s navigation instruments.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
