Comments on: “Remarkable” is right

By: Jessie Smith

Jessie Smith — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:05:00 +0000

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By: Jessie Smith

Jessie Smith — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:05:00 +0000

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By: Goldie Silver

Goldie Silver — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:05:00 +0000

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By: Jessie Smith

Jessie Smith — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:05:00 +0000

By: karrde

karrde — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:05:00 +0000

“Any landing that you can walk away from is a successful landing”
–attributed to a WWII bomber pilot.

Still, it is remarkable how the success happened in this case.

By: E.M.H.

E.M.H. — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:05:00 +0000

“the guy I was with piped up, ‘You know, he’s getting pretty close to the end.’ Immediately afterward, right off he went.”

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/03/toronto.crash/index.html

It looks as though this was a weather related accident, although the investigation will provide the final word.

I am amazed, albeit happily so, that there were no fatalities. The pictures made it look like a horrendous crash, yet as far as everyone knows, everyone on the plane, crew included, got off alive. What a great piece of news!

As Goesh said, my first thought was terrorism too. After I found out that weather was the leading “suspect”, I actually felt relieved. “Whew! It wasn’t a bomb.” Then I got to thinking, how bad is that attitude, that I’m actually relieved it wasn’t a terrorist act? People are just as dead or injured from a weather-related plane crash as they are from a terrorist induced one. Goesh is right — at least weather causes would mean there was no malicious act — but I still feel a slight tinge of shame at what I felt. Have I become that desensitized that I view suffering and potential death due to weather as not being as tragic as suffering and potential death due to terrorism?

By: Goesh

Goesh — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:05:00 +0000

Thank God they all made it out OK. My first thought was terrorism and I was relieved it was a malfunction, which could have been as bad, but at least no malicious.