Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Air Lines Flight 157

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The result was redirect to Delta Air Lines#Accidents and incidents. (non-admin closure) Britishfinance (talk) 23:28, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delta Air Lines Flight 157

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Non-notable, ok, airframe was written off, but it was repairable. No casualties and no significant consequences / changes in legislation, procedures or airworthiness Petebutt (talk) 06:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect or Delete. Low-profile accident with lack of deep coverage (only 2 sources) and lack of widespread lasting effects. Fails WP:N(E). Redirect to Delta Air Lines#Accidents and incidents, its mention there is good enough. ɴᴋᴏɴ21 ❯❯❯ talk 09:12, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:24, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Delta Air Lines#Accidents and incidents. Fails WP:GNG. Even if sources beyond the included incident reports can be found, it would still fail WP:NOTNEWS. StonyBrook (talk) 17:37, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. It's not presently included in the article, but the incident prompted an investigation into a new possible point of structural failure of the aircraft model. 15 aircraft were inspected, and 5 of them were found to have cracking in the fittings that attach the aft pressure bulkhead to the fuselage stringers. The FAA issued an airworthiness directive requiring all operators of the aircraft to inspect and replace those fittings. (60 Fed. Reg. 47,465 September 13, 1995). However, I wasn't able to find any news coverage of the incident through a search on newspapers.com throughout the month of August, 1995 other than a trivial mention that Delta Air Lines's L-1011 planes are really getting old and a source told the writer that two of them were grounded due to mechanical problems. So, falls short of WP:GNG. RecycledPixels (talk) 19:21, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I forgot to mention it, but I agree with Delta Air Lines#Accidents and incidents as a target of the redirect. RecycledPixels (talk) 19:18, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
While your points make sense, maybe there were more newspaper articles about this accident in September 1995 than August 1995. This accident happened in late August. Also, there is an aviation article that has only three sources and no info about the subsequent investigation and aftermath-specifically this article here: Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team plane crash. Yet, that article is not nominated for deletion or redirects. I just think the inconsistency between the two articles is weird, especially since the former (this article being nominated for deletion) is not a stub. Why can't I edit Userpedia? (talk) 02:42, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
See WP:OTHERSTUFF. StonyBrook (talk) 03:29, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I checked September 1995 as well and I saw nothing there on newspapers.com either. While it's nowhere near a perfect search, I have usually been able to do a similar search like that to turn up news coverage on other aviation incidents to be able to determine how widespread the coverage of the incident was, in order to show that the subject matter meets the minimum notability standards. I wasn't able to find anything in this case other than the airworthiness directives that resulted from it, which means that it can at least be mentioned on the airline website, but the incident wasn't widely reported enough (as far as I can tell) for a stand-alone article. RecycledPixels (talk) 17:20, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. Fails notability for a stand alone article. Agree with redirect per above. - Samf4u (talk) 13:01, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Delta Air Lines#Accidents and incidents, as others have said. Maybe a bit more of the content can be merged if need be. -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:27, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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