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[gonzo21]

You know there's many things in this world I do not understand. I'm a reclusive mountain hermit, I don't really get the world at the best of times. But see the media's weird sick fetishistic fascination with air crashes? And the way they pore over every detail, and rush to bring people images of the wreckage

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[benicek]

If those same people had been drowned making a refugee crossing by boat we'd hardly know about it.

[gonzo21]

Indeed not, no, and I'd wager you at least as many people died that day in refugee boats in the Med.

[wantedonvoyage]

Sad truth, in both cases. I follow these things out of technical interest/concern but I can't stomach the mainstream news; there are aviation geek channels where you can observe actual industry folks piecing together what actually happened, minus the political and the conspiracy theories.

[gonzo21]

One imagines at this point Egypt Air are only still operating thanks to state support.

[wantedonvoyage]

That's true in a number of countries. Even the gulf carriers success is widely attributed to government subsidies. In some places the state airline is a division of the post office.