Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
I doubt that either pilot went to the Chief Pilot's office and said "I crashed the plane". They reported that they landed as normally as possible, knowing that the nose gear would not extend. Damage occurred, airplanes are repairable, and consumable.
I'm sure they didn't and nobody has suggested anything other than the crew dealt with this professionally. I agreed to give up on the term crash several threads ago. My point was not to normalise incidents of this type.
Can we agree on accident? (albeit a minor one) That is how AH categorises it. And it will clearly be subject to an AAIB investigation