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12:08 UK Disappearing news Breakfast set Breakfast failed to
update viewers on an apparent plane crash Why do some stories
disappear after just one mention? Occasionally, stories get
reported on the news and then suddenly get dropped from the
agenda. That can puzzle, and sometimes annoy, viewers and
listeners.  An example occurred on Breakfast one morning
recently, when the programme reported that a plane had crashed
at Nairobi airport in Kenya. But after the initial report,
nothing more was said about the plane crash.  In fact, there
hadn't actually been a crash. It turned out that an emergency
drill was so realistic that the local media reported it as a
real accident. But shouldn't that information have been passed
on to viewers?  Viewer David Farr had been expecting friends
from Kenya and was angry that he was left in the dark.  "I can
understand that you can get false information like that