Originally Posted by
DH106
I love the phrase "
nearly missing" from the Aviation Safety Net page linked above:-
"On touch down, the Avro Lincoln developed an uncontrollable swing and crashed off the edge of the airfield,
nearly missing an estate of some newly built NCO married quarters and slewed around ending up on a rubbish dump"
Presumably "narrowly missing" or "nearly hitting" perhaps?
The main author of the ASN entry is a prodigious adder of historical UK mishaps to the site and his narrative is sometimes slightly wayward!