The accident was caused by human error. 这宗事故是人为过失造成的。
accident
[ noun ]
an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
<noun.event>
anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
<noun.event> winning the lottery was a happy accident the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck it was due to an accident or fortuity
Accident \Ac"ci*dent\, n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens, -dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See {Cadence}, {Case}.] 1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
Of moving accidents by flood and field. --Shak.
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. --Trench.
2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
4. (Log.) (a) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. (b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. --J. P. Mahaffy.
6. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
Pravda described the accident scene as being one of "brief panic," but said medical workers from Moscow and nearby Gorky were immediately notified and asked for help.
But a lawyer for Volkswagen of America, seeking pictures of an auto accident from a newspaper photographer, said journalists should be compelled to surrender evidence that is vital to a private lawsuit.
Around midday rumors started to circulate in the market about a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union, depressing share prices further, dealers said.
Opposition to nuclear power has swelled in the Soviet Union since the April 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.
"Contributing to the accident was the degradation of the captain's performance resulting from his use of cocaine before the accident," the board said.
"Contributing to the accident was the degradation of the captain's performance resulting from his use of cocaine before the accident," the board said.
He said nuclear plants remain a feasible source of electricity despite the accident.
In fact, it was just a traffic accident.
Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the Houston-to-Dallas train when the accident occurred near Waller, about 40 miles northwest of Houston, Southern Pacific Railroad spokesman Jim Johnson said.
Niederberger, who got off the train half an hour earlier and called the transit authority to report the driver, said his warnings were handled too slowly to prevent the accident.
Also since the accident, both the Directors Guild and the Screen Actors Guild set up 24-hour hotlines to answer questions on safety issues on a movie set.
United spokesman Lawrence M. Nagin said the jet had undergone a complete four-day inspection 88 days before the accident, and a less intensive check Feb. 16.
If you cause an accident with a car, or hit a pedestrian, they could sue you for damages. Most cycle insurance policies cover legal liability, but personal accident cover (for any injuries you suffer) is usually extra. Security is a consideration.
If you cause an accident with a car, or hit a pedestrian, they could sue you for damages. Most cycle insurance policies cover legal liability, but personal accident cover (for any injuries you suffer) is usually extra. Security is a consideration.
DeLisle, 30, and his wife maintain the car plunge was an accident, caused when a leg cramp forced DeLisle to jam his foot against the gas pedal and sent the car through a barrier rail and into the river.
The worst previous accident for the airlines was in 1976, when a Caravelle aircraft exploded at Bombay airport while landing. Ninety-five people were killed in the crash, blamed on leaking fuel pipes.
W. Henson Moore, deputy secretary of the Department of Energy, agreed with McMillan that prices had been rising before the accident.
Should we both be involved in an accident - an air crash - and were both found dead, would one be presumed to have died before the other?
"The last number I heard from Exxon Corp. is that they have spent $1 billion, $900 million in their cleanup effort since the accident," Skinner said.
Webb said the truck was headed into the Louisiana Pacific paper mill when the accident occurred.
The accident occurred when a quartz window in a bell jar containing tritium shattered.
"We suspect (Martin's) behavior may have played a part in the accident," a law enforcement source said.
The rooms do provide vistas of much of the city and, not by accident, the new government offices of the Soviet Union, once North Korea's staunchest ally.
The operator, Thomas Connor, fled the control tower after the January 1988 accident in Chester, Pa., and later tested positive for marijuana and small traces of cocaine and methamphetamine.
An NKK official declined to comment on the accident.
Boris A. Petrov, deputy Communist Party head of the Kalinin region where the accident occurred, said in a telephone interview that two of the 107 people initially hospitalized after the crash had died.
It also cited the death in a car accident of trade expert Horst Busse in March 1972.
Another person died in a traffic accident south of the city when the car struck horses that had gotten loose on Highway 1, Ms. Phillips said.
On Jan. 9, he was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and following a vehicle too closely after an accident in which his car struck the rear of another vehicle.
Belgrade radio described the impact as "tremendous." Special rescue teams were trying to extricate passengers from the tangled mass of metal, the reports said without giving a cause of the accident.