Talk:American Airlines Flight 320

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Much of the probable cause is taken word-for-word directly from the Civil Aeronautics Board's Aircraft Accident Report on Flight 320. This is a U.S. Government work and is therefore in the public domain.


 * Actually, it was a mixture of word-for-word and paraphrasing, which is not a proper way to do it. Therefore, I changed it to nothing but an accurate and complete quoting of the PROBABLE CAUSE (it is in caps in the report), and then improved the link to the report so that one click gets the downloaded PDF CAB Accident Report file.  It looks different than the usual link in Wiki, but what the hell, it works! 66.81.53.26 (talk) 00:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

NYT quote?
My guess is that the five paragraphs that start with a quote mark are actual quotes from the NYT source. If that's the case, this needs to be formatted correctly, perhaps as a block quote, or better yet paraphrased with a proper reference. If not, those stray unclosed quote marks should be removed. Kendall-K1 (talk) 16:35, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Mangled sentence
It's not clear what is intended by: affected the opening various equipment. catslash (talk) 00:13, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * This isn't a super fast response, but... thank you for your feedback. I looked at the source to see what I was trying to write at the time and have reworded that.  Sorry I didn't notice your comment earlier.  RecycledPixels (talk) 07:42, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Linking the final accident report
Hi! About this edit, I linked the accident report in the external links specifically to highlight the final report. I am aware that the report is cited in the list of references, but having to wade through a sea of references will turn off a lot of casual readers (especially readers who don't know how to use CTRL+F). The final accident report is the most important external link there is for a given aviation accident, and in my opinion it needs to be linked prominently.

What can be done, however, is make the citation just a page number, and under references (for a general list of books rather than the list of inline cites), include the full citation of the accident report. See Air_France_Flight_447 and Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123 which show the final accident report prominently as a list of cited references.

WhisperToMe (talk) 12:30, 3 July 2023 (UTC)