Every air crash is investigated by NTSB so there is a fighting chance of actually knowing the extent to which it was an "accident" or not. That doesn't explain this disconnect though. We call car crashes "accidents" because It Could Have Been Us. That's not true of air crashes.
One thing that's kinda interesting to me is Kobe's death was nearly universally reported as a helicopter "crash" not an "accident" like nearly all car deaths tend to be. So that got me researching and I guess planes and helicopters are always crashes and never accidents?
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@_Zeets pointed out it seems like single car crashes tend to be labeled as such, so there might be an element to which hitting an inanimate stationary object is a "crash" but another in-motion vehicle or person is an "accident." - Još 1 odgovor
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Would it be the difference between them colliding with non-human/non-vehicle objects? Hitting a mountain = crash/hitting another helicopter = accident?
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Could be! As a random example here's a report about a truck driver hitting a pole and it is a "crash" so you might be onto something there.http://www.gazettes.com/news/crime/driver-dead-after-truck-hits-pole/article_bc7e8c44-4121-11ea-abbd-97a6f6e634b3.html …
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It's kind of a basic journalism rule that it's a crash until proven it was an accident
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And yet most outlets don't seem to have that figured out
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My guess: inventing the term “jaywalking” and calling crashes “accidents” was a specific, coordinated propaganda effort by the auto industry, not a society-wide attitude toward travel methods and somehow the terminology didn’t transfer despite the dominance of car culture
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I was always taught to avoid calling a crash an accident because you don't know if it was actually an accident.https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1070020835711336451?s=19 …
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#CrashNotAccident should be the case. However -#carCulture has managed to normalize calling#roadViolence incidents 'accidents' first. It was an intentional PR strategy by auto industry early last century. More on car culture language in here:https://medium.com/@alex.m.dyer/car-blind-society-4256806b7bd7?sk=7e608c1746af516ec9787ee5b094959f … - Još 1 odgovor
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Leads one to wonder what the headline would be if a helicopter hit a car?
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