The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) writes incident and accident reports, mostly involving aircraft. In all their reports, there is a section titled “History of Flight.” That section gives background information on the aircraft, route, times, and more. Wouldn’t “History of the Flight” be the correct way to write it?
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2Yes, as part of a sentence and not of a title. Acceptable shorthand. – Yosef Baskin Nov 06 '22 at 19:29
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@Yosef Baskin: Interesting. How is the acceptability of a shorthand determined? – Charles Nicholson Nov 06 '22 at 19:32
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1Yosef means that when something is a title or heading it doesn't need to be a complete grammatical sentence. – Kate Bunting Nov 06 '22 at 19:40
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1If the report presents background details of recent flights, then "the flight" would be incorrect. An accident investigation wouldn't limit itself to the actual flight, but see if there is a behaviour pattern from which they can draw likely conclusions. – Weather Vane Nov 06 '22 at 19:55
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1I'm only surprised that the further condensed/telegraphed 'flight history' isn't used. – Edwin Ashworth Nov 06 '22 at 19:58