CNN owned the coverage of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 this past spring with its wall-to-wall commentary from experts like our own Contributing Editor Les Abend, a highly experienced Boeing 777 captain, and Editor-in-Chief Robert Goyer, but rival cable channel Fox News has a potent new weapon in its arsenal for covering aviation stories. And she’s a lot prettier than those guys, too.
With striking looks and on-air poise that seem tailor made for cable news, Lea Gabrielle, 39, was born to do this job. But when she suddenly begins discussing the specifics of laser-guided surface-to-air missile systems or tactical goals of airstrikes over Iraq, viewers get the sense that she really knows what she’s talking about.
