Propellers on Jet engines!
S. A. Mansoor Gulshan, Dhaka
Your Chittagong staff correspondent's high profile front page report on the DC-10 accident (July 2) has a faux pas in incorporating a propeller to a jet engine in the statement "they saw fire on a right-side propeller of the aircraft before it landed". The naturally excited airport officials (may be low level) may have said so, but your knowledgeable correspondent should have realised that jet engines don't have propellers which is probably known to almost everyone. Further in the first paragraph it is stated "it was forced to make a belly-landing", which contradicts the statement later describing the child's hurt. It says "when one of the plane's landing gears broke off on touching the ground". This means that the landing gear was down, whereas in a belly landing the landing gear is kept retracted. These two statements are rather contradictory and should have been looked into and corrected, which one expects from a high standard paper like yours.
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