What do the classifications Crash, Accident, Incident, News or Report mean?
Report indicates an articles about the release and contents of an official incident or accident investigation report, both preliminary and final, where The Aviation Herald did not report the original event. If The Aviation Herald did report the original event, the original article (series) will be updated and the investigation reports mentioned and linked in there.
News indicates an article about commercial aviation events, that are not related to an active flight (a flight is active from entering its takeoff runway to leaving its landing runway).
Incident marks any event out of the ordinary during an active flight (from entering takeoff runway to leaving landing runway), that causes no injuries or death to any people and causes only limited damage (exception: the engines of an aircraft may suffer even catastrophic damage in an incident).
Accident marks an incident, that has caused injuries or death to humans or caused significant damage.
Crash marks an accident, that is potentially catastrophic (has the potential to kill everybody on board of an airplane).