Frankfurt plane coverage

Breaking news on a Sunday afternoon - and the news channels were obviously caught a bit off-guard!

Fox News seemed to be on top of the story before anyone else. The UK news channels and CNN didn't even bother to break out of their feature programming (even though the pilot was threatening to crash into the ECB!) - only the ITV News Channel was giving updates before 4pm.

No-one's coverage was particularly great - not a single news channel managed to get a live feed from Frankfurt. MSNBC were quite a bit ahead in reporting that the plane was coming in to land, although this was more luck than anything, as they happened to have a producer on board a plane at Frankfurt airport who was able to get updates from the cockpit. CNNI took a feed from CNN US at 4pm.

Not that this turned out to be a very big story, though - but it was still a bit more important than 'Review of the year' or 'Click Online' IMHO!

I was watching that on the ITV News Channel, but then my dad switched over to Sky Sports!

Who was the presenter on ITV News, as the name caption didn't come up as they went straight into 'Breaking News' captions

I was watching "Clear The Skies", a documentary about September 11th, on BBC World at the time. At about 1535, they interrupted the programme and went back to the newsroom with Anita McNaught. She broke the news, and about a minute later they returned to "Clear The Skies". I tuned in at 1600, and they covered the story briefly, with the latest pictures and a correspondent in Frankfurt. They returned later in the bulletin to speak to an airport official, who broke the news that the plane had landed safely at Frankfurt.

Quite good coverage - I checked CNNI out after BBC World's news report and they were in World Sport, and News 24 seemed to be still in Click Online. Did anyone see what happened on 24?

I read on BBC News Online that the pilot of the stolen plane wanted to speak to CNN. I wonder why that was?

SKY News had pictures but N24 didn't, only breaking news astons and the newreader talking.

That's strange - BBC World had pictures, but News 24 didn't? I thought they shared their material?

The ITV news channel had good coverage today of this breaking news story!

BBC news was showing CLICK ONLINE.

Blimey, a big afternoon for breaking news - 2 bomb blasts in Tel Aviv now.

Were there any news reports on main stream BBC channels?

Here's what happened.

Sky broke the news first - followed by News 24 three mins later, then ITN. News 24 told the viewers what had happened and said more later. They kept giving details up to Click Online coming on. Sky had feature programmes at *30 as well.

Sky had pics in first but News 24 had people on the phone first. News 24 followed about a min/two later with the pics and then carried on with 'more as we get it'.

Fast and brief explanation but hope you know what I mean. Actually, N24 has been good at breaking news first this afternoon - with the death of Roy Jenkins, the end of the London seize etc.

It's not ended yet. Only the hostage has been released, the hostage taker is still in the house.

No doubt there will be special reports later in the ITV Weekend News.

I thought it was in Germany not near Lords??

Ste