Ranking officer
On the death of Kenya's military chief, Gen. Francis Omondi Ogolla, in a military helicopter crash, the BBC's newshounds went on to observe that:
Nine others killed in the crash were senior military officers: Brig Swale Saidi, Col Duncan Keittany, Lt Col David Sawe, Maj George Benson Magondu, Capt Sora Mohamed, Capt Hillary Litali, Snr Sgt John Kinyua Mureithi, Sgt Cliphonce Omondi, and Sgt Rose Nyawira.
Ian Wafula and Malu Cursino, BBC News
In no way intending to disrespect the dead, or trivialise a tragedy, I can't imagine there are too many military forces in the world in which non-commissioned officers, or even junior commissions for that matter, would be considered senior officers
. That rating is reserved for the rank of Major and above.
In which case, of nine others killed in the crash, four were senior military officers.
It's been fixed now.
Nine others killed in the crash were named as Brig Swale Saidi, Col Duncan Keittany, Lt Col David Sawe, Maj George Benson Magondu, Capt Sora Mohamed, Capt Hillary Litali, Snr Sgt John Kinyua Mureithi, Sgt Cliphonce Omondi, and Sgt Rose Nyawira.
Ian Wafula and Malu Cursino, BBC News
Unfortunately, although the Wayback Machine indexes the crawlers, they no longer appear to harvest the BBC's output. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to take the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
™ at its word from now on. 'Tis a dark day for transparency in news reporting though, an' no mistake.