Posted on 12/29/2014 10:36:11 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
The corpses did not have life jackets on.
True. I don’t know how to think any other way. But one would think common decency would be close to universal. It probably isn’t.
But the chance they’d show footage of one of the victims that a family member would see and recognize - and be disturbed by - should have occurred to them.
News media are the same everywhere - - if it bleeds, it leads.
There’s no such thing anymore as common decency....not even in our country.....Ferguson is a good example of that.
I’ve learned to expect anything....and if things go well then I’ll smile....but overall I have little expectations when it comes to news reporting.
I saw or heard something somewhere a few minutes ago that none of the bodies had life jackets on. Can’t remember now if it was online or on tv. A bit late at night to “multi-task”. :-)
It sounds like whatever happened, happened too fast for anyone to put one on before the plane crashed, and it appears the plane hit hard and people died on impact. No chance to put one on once in the water.
You just know they knew they were going down. When these plane crashes happen, I’m always plagued by thoughts of the helplessness and the horror they must have felt. There was nothing they could do.
There’s still a little common decency in the world, even in the US. But there’s also a whole lotta ugly out there, and that’s what we hear about most often. We have to look a little harder to find the “good news”.
When KAL 007 was shot down by the Soviets, it took minutes of spiraling before the craft hit the water.
Terrible.
I’m not surprised, but no doubt most would be in a panic mode ....
Interesting is Jet plane crashes are really at a low even though these three were high profile.
I think probabaly your life passes before you that quick....gosh I don’t know and I don’t want to know!
I was in a car accident once...happened so fast and the airbag hit me so hard darn near knocked me out entirely...I had no clue what happened.
But in a plane...and it’s going down...as you said you can do nothing but prepare for the impact.
The fact they found the emergency door is interesting....but we won’t relly know until they get the black box and even then...who made it out of the plane if at all.
You’re right. I have frequently been shocked at scenes shown on the news here that never would be shown in the West (or at least not now, I recall seeing pretty horrific things on the evening news in my native Northern Ireland in the early seventies).
However that’s probably a reflection on the somewhat more cosseted life we live in the West where life’s grim realities don’t leap up and smack you in the face as often as it does in places like Asia.
In a country where horrific transportation accidents are almost routine and ghastly traffic accidents are a daily occurrence - quite apart from everyday fires, drownings, construction site accidents - and which draw a bemused crowd of onlookers as the police tidy up the mess and the stream of traffic passes by a few feet away, people are no strangers to appalling sights of death and injury.
As time passes it will change and people living in comfortable air-conditioned homes in the suburbs won’t want to have such scenes played out in their living rooms, and indeed in the ten years I have been living here I have noticed the news stations are now much more circumspect about showing gore and horror, but for now we just have to accept that in Asia the people are just not as squeamish as we are.
I don’t care if they found debris or not...until I know the passenger manifest we won’t know if there was a motive of death to the passengers or not...we can almost assume muzlum pilots...e.g., what off 10 passengers were from a high tech Israeli company?
They do have a narrow search window. What’s the point of having 30-day pingers if you don’t use them?
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