Despite Western media's scare stories, space lab was unlikely to hit anyone

ON MONDAY, China's first space lab Tiangong-1 re-entered Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific. Beijing News comments:

Prior to its re-entry, overseas media outlets scare-mongered using words and phrases such as "risk", "danger" and "out of control" when describing Tiangong-1's descent, saying it would crash on land, in a populated area, causing heavy casualties.

Now their sensation-seeking and biased reports have been shown up for what they were, as according to official reports from Western and Chinese space agencies, most of Tiangong-1 burned up when entering the atmosphere and only a few remains fell into the ocean.