Professional Pilots Rumour Network

The Professional Pilots Rumour Network, or PPRuNe, is an Internet forum catering to airline pilots and others in the aviation industry.
The site was originally presented by Danny Fyne (later assisted by Robin Lloyd) as an email list in 1993. It progressed to a bulletin board and then to web-based Internet forum, and acts as a "rumour exchange" for airline pilots.
PPRuNe is known in European and Anglophone pilot circles and is cited by media in reports relating to aviation.
Since the site has more than 250,000 registered members, many of them pilots, the site is sometimes at the center of debates about aviation issues in the news.
Commercial pilots often share insights and perspectives about aviation mishaps, sometimes eyewitness accounts.
The site was acquired in August 2008 by Internet Brands.
The site is controversial because it lacks moderation as users are free to post everything about anything, without any moderation or censorship. False statements and harmful posts from anonymous users are spread throughout the forum without any control. If a complaint is made that a post or a thread is false or inaccurate, complaints are often ignored or commented as: “Freedom of speech”.
On March 22, 2012, a discussion was posted and stickied explaining any and all new discussions about Etihad Airways, its employees and practices, would be deleted; the discussion was closed right after, denying rights to understand why.