Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Air Canada Flight 190

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[edit] Clarification of Point

I had added the highligted text in response to a comment on my original posting. It should be retained somewhere, to clarify my reasoning:

• Keep - Per the guidelines referenced here Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Aviation/Aviation accident task force#Notability guidelines, which is referenced by the "these guidelines" link above (see on the second page, the reference "Proposed notability guidelines are available for comment on the talk page"), this incident would be notable. This is per the proposed guideline rules "it involves unusual circumstances" (positively) and "It involves a scheduled or charter air carrier and results in serious injury or loss of life" ("potentially debilatating spinal injuries"—per [1]—are serious, though I concede the wp article doesn't report this yet).

Also, just as a side note: It seems to me that policy should precede AfD rather than the other way around. "We'll delete everything just in case the policy we're making says it's not notable," seems a bit cart before horse. CoyneT ^talk 00:31, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

• • Comment. Did you actually read the article you linked? It said that earlier reports suggested "potentially debilitating spinal injures". That article made it very clear that the actual injuries were just "soft tissue" injuries - i.e.: bumps and bruises. Also, turbulence is hardly an unusual circumstance. Resolute 19:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Yes, I did see that. I don't think that mitigates the original statement, which would seem to imply that people were carried off the plane on backboards. "'His' neck isn't broken after all" doesn't seem, to me, to ameliorate the seriousness of an accident that raises the concern that 'his' neck might be broken. CoyneT ^talk 02:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)