Obama Jet Incident Worse Than Thought

It looks like the incident involving Barack Obama’s jet was worse than originally revealed, or so the media tells us. At the time of the event last month reports from the FAA stated that no emergency was declared but ABC has obtained tapes which would seem to show this was otherwise. According to those tapes an emergency was declared and they requested that emergency equipment be dispatched.

I am no expert (I will willingly defer to any readers who are) but this seems to me to be a bit of overreaction by the media crowd. As I understand it whenever a jet makes some sort of emergency landing it is standard procedure to dispatch emergency equipment even if there is no real danger of fire. Similarly, while declaring an emergency is a significant step it is also fairly standard to do so in a situation like this.

I am not downplaying things and I am very glad things turned out well but I get a little tired of the media trying to make huge stories out of everything