Squigee From Canada, joined May 2001, 652 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 1313 times:
trag·e·dy n. pl. trag·e·dies
A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea.
Incident, crash, even disaster maybe, but not tragedy.
Just to pick nits.
Someday, we'll look back at this, laugh nervously, and then change the subject.
Just looking at this year's database ( http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Year=2005 ), you can see there have been a number of write-offs (category A1), thankfully most of them without fatalities. There was however the Kam Air 737 which crashed in Afghanistan in February, killing 104.
V/F
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NAV20 From Australia, joined Nov 2003, 6191 posts, RR: 23 Reply 4, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1283 times:
One thing remains certain; whichever aeroplane or airline you choose, by far the most dangerous part of any journey by air remains the cabride to the airport!
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards.." - Leonardo da Vinci
CV580Freak From United Arab Emirates, joined Jul 2005, 914 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 977 times:
Poor old Hydro Air lost it's only B747-200F landing at LOS
One day you are the pigeon, the next the statue ...
TriJetFan1 From United States, joined Jan 2004, 1109 posts, RR: 7 Reply 9, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 468 times:
Quoting Squigee (Reply 2): trag·e·dy n. pl. trag·e·dies
A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea.
Incident, crash, even disaster maybe, but not tragedy.
Just to pick nits.
To me, whenever a airplane is lost, it is a tragedy, a loss of life, almost. But then again, those pilots lives are probably ruined, so there you go (maybe).
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