Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Coventry Airport collision


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The result was   redirect to Coventry Airport. Material may be merged from article history.  Jujutacular  talk 23:38, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

2008 Coventry Airport collision

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Although a tragic occurrence, this accident is no different or more significant than a vast multitude of other similar accidents. Fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE (Wikipedia is not a database of aircraft accidents), WP:NOTNEWS (no continuing coverage in reliable sources of the accident beyond "this happened"), and WP:AIRCRASH (no significant changes to procedures or regulations and no airworthiness directives issued). The Bushranger One ping only 21:17, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Fails the threshold for an article at WP:AIRCRASH, accidents like this are fairly common occurrences.. - Ahunt (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Coventry Airport. Though I highly doubt mid-air collisions are common occurrences, unless it can be proved that this accident in some way had a major effect on regulations and practices, the info is better off (minus the names/ages of the victims) on the Coventry airport site. Ravendrop (talk) 04:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to the airport article, a highlight incident in relation to the airport's own history. 64.229.101.119 (talk) 05:07, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets all the requirements of WP:NOTABILITY and in particular the General notability guidelines. There are fewer than 50 mid-air collisions documented on WP - a far from common occurrence. Androstachys (talk) 06:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment actually the reason there are few on Wikipedia is not because they are rare, but because they are mostly non-notable. Worldwide there are over 100 mid-airs a year, mostly between light aircraft and mostly non-notable, other than to the people involved, of course. - Ahunt (talk) 14:31, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Merge to Coventry airport per Ravendrop. Mid-air collisions between two light aircraft are not that rare in the UK. This accident is nowhere near the notability threshold, unlike the 1974 Norfolk mid-air collision, which led to major changes in practices. Mjroots (talk) 07:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Ravendrop. But any entry needs to correspond to the AAIB report and appropriately referenced. The present statement that pilots had been given "insufficient or inaccurate information" is meaningless and potentially misleading. The collision occured as such events often do due to a combination of factors. One or both pilots were unable to see the other aircraft until too late to take evading action, there was a misunderstanding involving ATC over the purpose of the Cessna flight leading to misclassification and inappropriate procedure being followed, a misunderstanding as to the specific intentions of the Cessna, an error of judgement leading to loss of separation. In general it is best to give the reference than to attempt an over-brief summary especially where it might be interpreted as attributing blame. AJHingston (talk) 14:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to the airport as advocated above. Consideration should be given simply to starting an article about mid-air collisions in a particular year or decade.  Few of them are notable enough under WP:EVENT for their own article. We have a list in mid-air collision, of course, of articles about the notable ones.  Without a location where they can be referred to collectively, people end up creating a new(s) article.  Mandsford 14:34, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge it to Coventry airport, worth a mention there but not notable enough for its own article.  Worm    TT   09:48, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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