Originally Posted by
kinteafrokunta
I thought I saw fleetingly a post from someone that this was an
accident not an incident . Wow, it was quickly taken out so fast that I hadn't even finished the sentence " those nigels................ " before it went out of sight! GCHQ super efficiency?
Odd. I wonder why that would be considered offensive. As for the accident/incident question, there wouldn't be any question if it were under the jurisdiction of the US. Under the NTSB regulations an accident is defined as:
“an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage.”
It would be pretty hard to argue that the aircraft had not sustained substantial damage, given that it's being scrapped as a result.
Is there a similar legal definition which would be relevant in this instance?