Originally Posted by
birmingham
What happened does - like it or not meet the OED definition of crash.
However, this is not a word that many here wish to use and there are many alternatives. I accept that abnormal landing, technical issue, gear failure are all possible descriptions.
The term "crash" does not appear in ICAO Annex 13, nor in the ADREP or ECCAIRS Occurrence Category definitions.
This event would be classified as an Abnormal Runway Contact (ARC), preceded in this case by a System/Component Failure or Malfunction (SCF-NP).
There's little point in arguing about semantics in a professional forum when our industry already has a taxonomy that's widely accepted.