Why is this on TPM? Is TPM going to start emulating the local news, and post stories about car crashes and house fires? Can we get the racing results from Belmont?
I was going to write “And?” but you’ve made the point.
Perhaps one of Cindy Yang’s masseuses was on board enroute to Mar-A-Lago.
I’m going to venture a guess that it is an automated AP weekend feed, and it passed muster because it was at Newark, which is somewhat near TPM HQ in NYC. ¯ \ _ (ツ) _/¯
Metaphor for the country.
Except we’re choking on the smoke and the plane won’t effing land. 
My best guess is that it’s the weekend when political news is slow, and it’s important for SEO reasons for sites like TPM to constantly put up new content. Hence an AP story about a plane problem.
Spiderpig may also be correct, that it’s simply automated.
There’s news today about a crash in Ethiopia, all 150 pax died. Somebody’s asleep at the wheel here for overlooking this.
Must have thought it was a Tesla jetliner.
It was a Boeing 737 which most countries are no longer going to use in their fleets. There’s corruption behind the purchases of these planes. This retired airline employee gets spooked every time there’s news of a crash.