IsaacNewton
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An incursion is when something gets on the runway that shouldn't be there, while excursion is when a plane leaves the runway improperly. These words aren't that big I don't see the problem.
You don't see the problem? How about leaving off those utterly useless bureaucratic concealment words and saying " a COW got on the RUNWAY, for God's sake, can't you guys deal with livestock better than that????"
And excursion definitely does not mean leaves the runway improperly. The word for that is, "We fell down the HILL almost into the SEA and CNN and the whole damn world is looking at us on CABLE."
People, could we not let bureaucrats use obfuscation words to conceal their complete inability to cope with the modern world and instead use plain English to describe what HAPPENED?
Aviation does not use plain English on purpose, they use terminology that is meant to convey precise meaning in the fewest possible words. Aviation also uses countless abreviations. VOR, CFIT, GPS, NOTAMS, FL180, DME.
You seem to expect the rest of the world to speak directly to you in your approved verbiage. Come now that would leave everyone FUBAR.