The passenger died of injuries in the hospital not long after the shooting. He was apparently not killed instantly. So CNN rewrote the headline and the lead, and may have left a true (but not up to date) reference to the condition of the passenger, later in the story. Also, CNN like a number of other news sites updates breaking stories in place, without changing the URL. The short summary I copied and pasted from the CNN main page was static, while the contents of the story behind the link were dynamic. In other words, not bad reporting, but an artifact of dynamic updating of online news. -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Dec 7, 2005, at 1:04 PM, David MR wrote: > The CNN headline says "Passemger killed after claiming to have a > bomb." The CNN article says in the opening paragraph "Federal air > marshals shot and killed a 44-year-old U.S. citizen..." yet just a > few paragraphs later it says the citizen was wounded. > > This is why I check other sources when reading a CNN article > involving aviation or plolitics - I want to make sure I get the > correct story. At least they got the number of pax that an AA 757 > can carry correct > > David R > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "Michael C. Berch" <mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Police: Shot fired on Miami airport Jetway >> BREAKING NEWS >> Police: Shot fired on Miami airport Jetway >> >> A federal air marshal shot and wounded a passenger on the Jetway >> connecting an American Airlines plane to Miami International Airport, >> sources told CNN. The marshal's action came after threatening action >> by the passenger, a federal government official said. The Federal Air >> Marshals Service confirmed a marshal fired his weapon while the >> Boeing 757 -- which was en route from Medellin, Colombia, to Orlando, >> Florida -- was on the ground at Miami. >> >> Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/07/airplane.gunshot/ >> index.html >> >> -- >> Michael C. Berch >> mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >