From a Reuters story:
Fossett hopes to touch down back in Kansas in a little less than three days after covering 23,000 miles at altitudes of up to 52,000 feet — and is designated as an alternate landing spot for the Space Shuttle.
Was this an editing error, or did a robot just string together phrases, hoping it would sound okay? This is one of the problems with unbylined stories – if nobody has their name on it, nobody cares.
Okay, so I don’t know if unbylined is a word. But I’m not a news agency.