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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across all three outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points. Each headline adopted a straightforward, wire-service style focused on factual description of the incident. The main variation between outlets was one of emphasis and sequencing rather than ideological framing: CNN led with the physical impact, noting a "flying object hits plane," while Al Jazeera foregrounded the investigative response with "Germany investigates," and Sky News highlighted the resolution of the immediate threat with "detonator removed." None of the headlines introduced political attribution, alarming language, or rhetorical loading. All three treated the event as a security and logistics story rather than, for example, a terrorism or immigration story. Readers across these outlets would have received substantively similar, neutrally framed accounts of the same incident.