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Why are we so obsessed with plane crashes?
Hot Air.com ^ | January 3, 2015 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 01/03/2015 9:51:57 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/03/2015 9:51:57 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

You’re watching too much CNN during the Fox/Dish dispute.....


2 posted on 01/03/2015 9:55:59 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Kaslin

CNN is not us.


3 posted on 01/03/2015 9:57:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Black lies matter. 'White privilege' is dog-whistle for 'kill white people.')
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To: Kaslin
I worked in the airline industry during the Golden Age of aviation. Then came the Lockerbie explosion. Having experienced flight and the awesome view from 30,000' in space, I can't begin to imagine the horror experienced by those passengers on that PA flight.

Many comparisons are being drawn between the Air Asia disaster and the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed 228 people. The full report on that accident was released in October 2014. It is lengthy but steps you through the events from departure.

Should Airplanes be Flying Themselves?

4 posted on 01/03/2015 10:01:07 AM PST by NYer (Merry Christmas and best wishes for a blessed New Year!)
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To: Kaslin

We’re addicted to drama. We see it while standing in line at the supermarket, on TV, on youtube.com and in our daily lives. Especially, it sells toothpaste and diapers on the news programs. We’re used to it, so it needs to be ever bigger and better. Air crashes bring a special resonance to our bones not only because they recall all the air crash movies we’ve seen, but we’ve all been on planes and wondered about being in that tiny, crushing space while drama happens to us. (Do what I’ve done. Throw away the TV. Don’t read the dinosaur print press.)


5 posted on 01/03/2015 10:01:14 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Kaslin

Squirrel!


6 posted on 01/03/2015 10:07:13 AM PST by BlackAdderess
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To: Kaslin

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond who
Comes on at five
She can tell you ‘bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry


7 posted on 01/03/2015 10:07:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: G Larry

CNN what?


8 posted on 01/03/2015 10:11:32 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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We got the bubble headed
Bleached blonde
Comes on at five
She can tell you ‘bout the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry


9 posted on 01/03/2015 10:13:34 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: NYer

A class mate of mine from Germany was a Stewardess (flight attendant) for Pan Am


10 posted on 01/03/2015 10:15:05 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: BenLurkin

Dangit, you beat me to it.


11 posted on 01/03/2015 10:15:32 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Kaslin
How many people out of the US population are really watching?

This is a topic of large concern for the elites - not just politicians but the reporter-ettes, etc. The class of people who rules over us by making money off our vices.

They fly a lot.

12 posted on 01/03/2015 10:17:38 AM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Kaslin

Because of the law of gravity.


13 posted on 01/03/2015 10:17:54 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Kaslin

Can’t recall any time recently when we had so many experts on how we all should behave.


14 posted on 01/03/2015 10:18:03 AM PST by John W (Al Gore Global Warming King frozen stiffer)
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To: Kaslin

I was fascinated by a house fire in my neighborhood as a kid of about 10 years of age. I went back over and over, and walk thru the place.


15 posted on 01/03/2015 10:19:32 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sharyl Attkisson mentions this in her book “Stonewalled.” It takes time away from covering anything critical of B. Obama.
16 posted on 01/03/2015 10:20:56 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: BenLurkin
you mean this blonde?


17 posted on 01/03/2015 10:21:32 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Airplanes are a menace. We can be walking along, minding our own business, and boom, a plane crashes on top of us. It’s worse than having to dodge those nasty meteorites.


18 posted on 01/03/2015 10:25:55 AM PST by pallis
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To: Kaslin

First, the majority of reporters (or journalists) know absolutely nothing about aeronautics and they believe that, when they think at all, the airplane flies because of some magical, invisible force. If a plane crashes, then the plane’s magical force broke and it fell down.

Secondly, since most reporters (or journalists) are ignorant about aviation, they revert to their fallback position of writing or broadcasting the news called: “if it bleeds, it leads”.


19 posted on 01/03/2015 10:27:18 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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Because they happen and some people are uncomfortable with that.


20 posted on 01/03/2015 10:28:12 AM PST by SkyDancer
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