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The boring answer is that because the WikiProject Aviation style guide says so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation/Aviation_accident_t

The boring answer is that because the WikiProject Aviation style guide says so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation/Aviation_accident_task_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation... But this also avoids pointless wrangling over whether each accident should be called an accident, incident, disaster, terrorist attack, hijacking, etc. FWIW, the Japanese/Chinese 事件 literally translates as "incident", which can be controversial in itself. For example, the Nanking Massacre is typically called the "Nanking Incident" (南京事件) in Japanese.

theBobBob 6y ago
I think Ireland is champion of euphemistically naming things to greatly play them down. We referred to WW2 (you know that little conflict that killed like 70 million people) as "The Emergency" while we still call the conflict in Northern Ireland as "The Troubles".
- WesolyKubeczek 6y ago
  I read Flann O’Brien’s “An Béal Bocht” once. In it, Irish people have more suffering or less suffering, but never none, not even after death. I know it was satire and an exaggeration, but those stereotypes usually stem from a kernel of truth.
- donaltroddyn 6y ago
  And the famine was the big hunger (an Gorta Mór).
fireattack 6y ago
The Japanese/Chinese versions for this particular article use "事故", not "事件".
thaumasiotes 6y ago
> For example, the Nanking Massacre is typically called the "Nanking Incident" (南京事件) in Japanese. This appears to have undergone some sort of renaming in English too. What happened to "the Rape of Nanking"?
throw0101a 6y ago
> But this also avoids pointless wrangling over whether each accident should be called an accident, incident, disaster, terrorist attack, hijacking, etc. Growing movement in the automobile world: > Before the labor movement, factory owners would say "it was an accident" when American workers were injured in unsafe conditions. > Before the movement to combat drunk driving, intoxicated drivers would say "it was an accident" when they crashed their cars. > Planes don’t have accidents. They crash. Cranes don’t have accidents. They collapse. And as a society, we expect answers and solutions. > Traffic crashes are fixable problems, caused by dangerous streets and unsafe drivers. They are not accidents. Let’s stop using the word "accident" today. * https://crashnotaccident.com https://crashnotaccident.com > When it comes to describing the behaviour of the drivers on our roads, we have a language problem. When you are speeding and hit something, you didn’t have an accident, you caused a collision. When you blow off a stop sign and T-bone someone else, you didn’t have an accident, you caused a crash. When you get behind the wheel drunk and drive into a tree, you did not have an accident; you got drunk and drove into a tree. * https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-car-accident https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/why-theres-no-such-thing-a... * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/24/when-a-car-crash-isnt-an-accident-and-why-the-difference-matters/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/24/when-...

theBobBob 6y ago

I think Ireland is champion of euphemistically naming things to greatly play them down. We referred to WW2 (you know that little conflict that killed like 70 million people) as "The Emergency" while we still call the conflict in Northern Ireland as "The Troubles".

WesolyKubeczek 6y ago
I read Flann O’Brien’s “An Béal Bocht” once. In it, Irish people have more suffering or less suffering, but never none, not even after death. I know it was satire and an exaggeration, but those stereotypes usually stem from a kernel of truth.
donaltroddyn 6y ago
And the famine was the big hunger (an Gorta Mór).

fireattack 6y ago

The Japanese/Chinese versions for this particular article use "事故", not "事件".

thaumasiotes 6y ago

> For example, the Nanking Massacre is typically called the "Nanking Incident" (南京事件) in Japanese. This appears to have undergone some sort of renaming in English too. What happened to "the Rape of Nanking"?

throw0101a 6y ago

> But this also avoids pointless wrangling over whether each accident should be called an accident, incident, disaster, terrorist attack, hijacking, etc. Growing movement in the automobile world: > Before the labor movement, factory owners would say "it was an accident" when American workers were injured in unsafe conditions. > Before the movement to combat drunk driving, intoxicated drivers would say "it was an accident" when they crashed their cars. > Planes don’t have accidents. They crash. Cranes don’t have accidents. They collapse. And as a society, we expect answers and solutions. > Traffic crashes are fixable problems, caused by dangerous streets and unsafe drivers. They are not accidents. Let’s stop using the word "accident" today. * https://crashnotaccident.com https://crashnotaccident.com > When it comes to describing the behaviour of the drivers on our roads, we have a language problem. When you are speeding and hit something, you didn’t have an accident, you caused a collision. When you blow off a stop sign and T-bone someone else, you didn’t have an accident, you caused a crash. When you get behind the wheel drunk and drive into a tree, you did not have an accident; you got drunk and drove into a tree. * https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-car-accident https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/why-theres-no-such-thing-a... * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/24/when-a-car-crash-isnt-an-accident-and-why-the-difference-matters/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/24/when-...