January book launch!
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Journalism
Posts of news items or articles related to Terry’s Journalism
Fatal Crash of Airbus A320 Karachi May 22nd 2020
Fatal Crash Karachi May 22nd 2020. PIA flight 8303 A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 carrying 99 people crashed into a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan after reporting loss of thrust on both engines. 97 of those on board died. It will be some time before details from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice …
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Ukrainian Airliner shot down in Iran
Loss of Ukrainian Boeing 737 due to anti aircraft missile. Shortly after takeoff from Iran’s main airport on January 8th 2020 a Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing crashed in flames. The events happened so fast that I am now writing history but on the day in question there was a huge amount of media interest. In …
Bek Air Fokker 100 Crash Kazakhstan 27th December 2019
I am often asked for explanations of an accident as soon as the crash has occurred and of course it is seldom possible to be dfinitive; merely offer likely scenarios. In this particular case we have a lot of evidence to point to likely causes already. The crash – I will no call it an …
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Russian Superjet Tragedy
The terrifying spectacle of the Sukhoi airliner crash landing in Moscow and bursting into a fiery inferno was hard to watch; how can this happen with a modern jetliner? What we see in the video clip is a hard landing followed by a large bounce and a return to earth that was hard enough to …
Officially Boeing can mark its own homework – Ethiopian Airlines Crash Update
The original B737 was launched in 1965 with small turbojet engines and went on to be a very successful aircraft. As fuel efficiency and noise became priorities, the aircraft was fitted with larger CFM turbofan engines and whilst quieter and more fuel efficient the extra size only just made the under wing location viable, due …
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The Village Post Office
Article by Terry Tozer. First published in the Western Morning News in March 2008 Turn on the news and you are likely to hear of another post office closure somewhere in Britain. On Friday (7th March) it was the impending closure of Maida Vale Post Office in London that made the headlines; with celebrities like …
Sunday Shopping
Article by Terry Tozer, first published in the Western Morning News, July 8th 2006 When the big change in Sunday trading laws was made in the1990s, I was in favour of the idea. That the Church was one of the most vociferous opponents only served to convince me that establishment dinosaurs were attempting to stifle …
The Great Fishing Dilemma
Article by Terry Tozer. First published in the Western Morning News in September 2008, under the title Quota Rules Don’t Catch Out Fishermen One of the joys of shopping in Spain is a walk around the fish section of any market. The pinnacle of this visual and gastronomic wonder is probably the Boceria in Barcelona. …
Bankers: The New Estate Agents
The world is still rocking on its foundations from the seismic shocks in the banking industry and few of us are unaffected in some way or another. Even if we are not the real unfortunates who have lost their life savings or jobs, given the economic gloom now settled on Britain and elsewhere, few are …