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Old 9th Oct 2007, 09:16
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3Ten WHAT?? Am I understanding it right? You're beeing argumentative, I would risk to say that you won't get many feedback form pilots here.

I submit again my reply of yesterday. In fact, my statement was deliberately provocative. I know that, in aeronautics, an event is an outcome of some processes that are not going in the planned way, and that can therefore be described as incident or accident. From this point of view, some kind of fault is the “main cause” of the “wrong” consequence. But, if we consider the term from a physical point of view (that includes the former meaning as subset), an event is “A phenomenon or occurrence located at a single point in space-time (Am. Heritage Dictionnary)”. In this broader sense, even a successful landing, with the plane at the gate, is an event.
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