The AP’s latest MH17 crash tweet shows the importance of a style guide

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The Associated Press (AP) stylebook is the single most important book in a lot of journalists’ libraries, but the person behind its Twitter feed definitely could have done with a fresh glance at it today.

One of the news agency’s latest tweets around the Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash was ambiguous enough to leave people concerned that a fresh tragedy had occurred while the bodies of the deceased were being flown to the Netherlands.

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AP was however quick to issue a correction:

The plane, which crashed 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border late last week, is believed to have been brought down by a Buk surface-to-air missile.

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