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Summary edit
| Description | Aerial view of British Airways Flight 38 crash scene short of runway 27L, London Heathrow, taken from the AAIB final accident report (contrast adjusted). | ||||||||
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| Author or copyright owner |
Metropolitan Police (UK), as credited in report by AAIB | ||||||||
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008 Immediate source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f3dbe5274a1314000495/1-2010_G-YMMM.pdf | ||||||||
| Date of publication | January, 2010 | ||||||||
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | British Airways Flight 38 | ||||||||
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | This is the only photo that documents the entire accident sequence. It clearly shows how close the accident aircraft came to hitting objects on the ground. It illustrates the most important aspect of the accident - that although everybody survived, catastrophe was very narrowly avoided. It also shows the proximity of the aircraft to the flight's intended runway, illustrating that, although the crash was nearly a mass-fatality event, it was also nearly a normal landing. This photo is widely recognizable, nearly iconic of this crash. (The AAIB considered this photograph illustrative enough to place it at the beginning of their report, the first image shown, just before the text of the report began.) It also illustrates specific failures in the aircraft that let to changes in the industry, such as the right main landing gear failure, which tore through the fuel tank as it broke off, causing the spillage of thousands of kilograms of fuel, yet there was no fire. | ||||||||
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
Any similar illustration would simply be a derivative if this photo. The Metropolitan Police had exclusive access to the airspace around the crash site, so no other photo could be taken, and no other source of images was available. While the ground scars were described i9n the AAIB report in terms of starting location and depth, and the condition and final position of the aircraft are well documented, there is no adequate description of the ground scars and their path to the final position of the aircraft other than in this photo (and in similar photos also taken by the Metropolitan Police) on which to base any adequate illustration. | ||||||||
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | This is the only non-free file that will be used in the article. It has been cropped to reduce its size by 16.5%, and it's resolution has been reduced to 23.8% of the original. The final size is 172,800 pixels. This size will be discussed below. | ||||||||
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
The Metropolitan Police are a Crown body, a unit of government in the UK. They are not a commercial enterprise. The work is under Crown copyright, though it is not made available under the Open Government License in the UK, as the Metropolitan Police have been delegated authority to license their own work outside the OGL. This image was also cropped and reduced in resolution, as described below. | ||||||||
| Other information |
The image size is480 x 360 pixels, or 172,800 pixels. It is larger than 100,000 because at 364 x 274 (99,736 pixels), the runway number was illegible in the image. This image is of a field, a large area with small things in it, with the aircraft in the background. It is the path of the accident that is illustrated, but very little can be clearly seen in the image. I took the runway marking as a reasonable measure of adequate resolution, as the actual number is 60 feet tall and slightly less wide. Finally, the resolution is reduced to 23.8% of the original AS IT APPEARS in the source pdf file (full size is 1145 x 761 pixels). The original photograph is undoubtedly much higher in resolution than that. | ||||||||
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of British Airways Flight 38//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BA_38_Accident_Path_facing_west.pngtrue | |||||||||
Licensing edit
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