"Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message
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From: "Cecil E. Chapman"

Why does the press refer to emergency landings as 'crashes',,, if they
were
truly uncontrolled as the word "crash" implies, there would have more
likely
been fatalities rather than minor injuries... grrr :-)

Sensationalism. They can be educated, though. Our local station used
to refer to every plane that didn't land at the airport as a "crash".
Between
calls, email, and letters, I must have explained to them 50 times that
it's
not always a crash. Finally, either I, or someone got through to them
because
now a crash is a crash, an emergency landing is an emergency landing. Just
recently a Cessna (150 series) came down in a field and flipped over
when the nose wheel bogged down in the snow. The report was something like
this: "A single engine Cessna airplane made an emergency landing at a
Berkshire farm today after the engine suffered a loss of power. Both
pilots
were shaken but unhurt when the front wheel sunk in the snow and flipped
the plane over as it was coasting to a stop". (insert picture of inverted
plane in the snow with a few cops standing around with coffee and donuts)
Really not bad as news stories go

Hm, so when a car flips over, can that still be called a crash, or has the
driver just performed an "emergency parking"?

--Gary