A German jetliner en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, plunged from the sky on Tuesday and slammed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Helicopters and rescue personnel swarmed into the remote, rugged area in southeastern France after the crash but found no signs of life. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said none of the 144 passengers and six crew members survived.
(New York Times, March 24, 2015)
True to form, armchair pilots, investigators, and terror experts are treating us to all kinds of idle speculation about what happened to this flight. Never mind that they are still trying to explain what happened to MH370 one year ago.
Granted, the aim of all media in covering tragedies like this is not to inform so much as to entertain … for ratings.
Meanwhile, none of this will mean anything to the loved ones of those who perished. Nor will any of it do anything to prevent future air disasters, which invariably result from the infinite capacity of humans to commit catastrophic errors in the skies.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected.
NOTE: Despite the recent spate of airline disasters, flying remains a far safer mode of transportation than driving.
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