BA Plane slices through building

[Roadrunner23]

http://news.sky.com/story/1186278/british-airways-...

[fatboy b]

Just love Sky reporting calling it a crash to dramatise it.

[The Nur]

fatboy b said:

Just love Sly reporting calling it a crash to dramatise it.

So what do you call it when a vehicle hits something else?

[Eric Mc]

Direct quote from the Sky News website.

"British Airways Plane 'Crash' In Johannesburg

The aircraft was manoeuvring the runway when it collided with a building, slicing part of the way through its top floor".

Using a 747 to "manoeuvring the runway" seems rather ambitous.

[knight]

There a a few photos of the damage over on pprune

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/530468-british-...

[croyde]

Bet he had that same awful feeling that I had when I knocked that wall down with the boss' van.

[Butter Face]

Jesus.

I bet the pilot was gutted when that happened!

[Eric Mc]

You don't realise how big these aeroplanes are until they do something like this.

[fatboy b]

The Nur said:

So what do you call it when a vehicle hits something else?

99.99% of the population associate the words "plane" and "crash" in the same sentence with something a little more catastrophic. But then you knew that.

[onyx39]

Butter Face said:

Jesus.

I bet the pilot was gutted when that happened!

(according to PPrune) the aircraft has done 109,000 hours and may well be a write off...

oops....

[0000]

Sign47 said:

They kept us on board for over an hour after the collision and the message we were getting most was to turn our electronics off. This is because the captain and crew knew everyone was taking photos and posting to social media from their seats.

Ha.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/22012805-post32.htm...

[The Nur]

fatboy b said:

99.99% of the population associate the words "plane" and "crash" in the same sentence with something a little more catastrophic. But then you knew that.

bks. That plane has clearly crashed in to that building. Just because it was taxiing instead of flying makes no difference, IMO.

Do we have different words for car crashes at different speeds? No.

[davepoth]

The Nur said:

bks. That plane has clearly crashed in to that building. Just because it was taxiing instead of flying makes no difference, IMO.

Do we have different words for car crashes at different speeds? No.

Ah, but we do have different words for planes, because it makes a bit of a difference. If it had nose-dived from 30,000 feet into this building at 600mph it would be different to a ground handling incident, even though it seems to have been travelling at a fair speed in this case.

[The Nur]

davepoth said:

Ah, but we do have different words for planes, because it makes a bit of a difference. If it had nose-dived from 30,000 feet into this building at 600mph it would be different to a ground handling incident, even though it seems to have been travelling at a fair speed in this case.

Fair enough, what is this called then? Not taking the piss, genuinely interested.

My earlier post, whilst not the most eloquently put, was more a reaction to obtuse_b's quip of "but you already knew that" as if that is the be all and end all statement required to prove that one is unequivocally correct. I appreciate that in the industry there may be official terms that relate to incidents that happen in individual circumstances but to the vast majority of people, when a vehicle hits another, it is a crash.

[Simpo Two]

'Struck' would seem to solve the dispute. As in 'The aeroplane struck the building'.

[0000]

Simpo Two said:

'Struck' would seem to solve the dispute. As in 'The aeroplane struck the building'.

Struck it taxiing past or in a dive from 30k feet?

[croyde]

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Collision yes, crash no.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

Verb

1. [no object] (of a vehicle) collide violently with an obstacle or another vehicle.

[MitchT]

The Nur said:

Do we have different words for car crashes at different speeds? No.

Yes we do. We tend to call collisions 'bumps' or 'scrapes' when they happen as at low speed.

[IanMorewood]

Whoops wouldn't want to pay the excess on that little bump.