Newspaper banned for second day over flight scare story
23.04.10
The Daily Star is not on sale at Manchester Airport for the second day running, and officials are contemplating whether to ban the newspaper permanently, the Guardian reports. The decision to take the newspaper off sale today - which follows its 'ill-advised and tasteless splash yesterday, TERROR AS PLANE HITS ASH CLOUD' [Guardian words] - was not an official one. A spokesman said that it was an action by WH Smith staff and airport colleagues responsible for distributing the papers within the airport.
Russell Craig, the airport's head of communications, told the Guardian yesterday that the Star's splash - illustrated by a computer-generated image of a plane with its engines on fire even though there were no engine fires in the incident - had the potential to cause ‘absolute panic’ among passengers. He said: ‘We have had so much negative feedback from passengers that we are considering whether the Daily Star will remain off the shelves on a permanent basis.’
Four other airports also removed it from sale yesterday - Gatwick, Leeds Bradford, Bristol and Liverpool - but have allowed it back on the shelves today. Perhaps that is because both the Sun and the Mail reported the same story yesterday, although both did so without the computer generated engine fires.
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