This morning, the Associated Press’s Twitter account—an account followed by more than 3.5 million people, and a de facto source for news on the Internet—sent out the following tweet:

There was nothing inaccurate about the tweet. It was factually correct; it was grammatically correct. What it missed, of course, was context—and, specifically, the ambiguity of the word “crash” within that context. The tweet, read in one of the two ways you could read it, suggested that the plane carrying the victims of the crash… had itself crashed.

Which was unfortunate, especially since the tweet was retweeted more than 3,000 times, and favorited more than 500. (More fortunately: The plane did not crash. It landed safely. Phew.)