10 Deadliest Air Disasters Caused By Miscommunication

Regarding PSA 182, this particular sentence is worded in an inaccurate way:

"Less than two minutes after the transmission, the Cessna slammed into the bottom of Flight 182’s right wing"

It implies that the Cessna ran into the PSA 727, when actually the PSA jet ran over the Cessna from behind. The sentence should more accurately state that the 727 slammed into the top of the Cessna.
 
And this, folks, is why threads on proper radio phraseology garner such charged responses.
And why it surprises me when the "professionals" get spun up when people tell them to use proper phraseology (even here in this forum)......
 
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