Originally Posted by
Marlin240
Well now, how can this be possibly considered a hard landing? Seems positively cushy compared to the hard-landing-as-defined-by-AC YHZ version. 🙄
Extrapolating from some commentators here, as long as the aircraft eventually makes contact with the runway at some point and the fuselage remains intact (engines not necessarily) it was a "landing" and not a "crash". Adding modifiers like "hard" to "landing" is just being verbose.