[entropy12]

I was thinking the same thing. Unimaginable stress and suffering by the innocent passengers, which included many high school kids.

[wtd]

Unimaginable is an understatement. Press reports about the black box cockpit voice recorder suggested the passengers were unaware of their destiny when the plane began it's descent. Only seconds prior to impact was screaming from the passenger cabin heard on this recording. Or so they say.

• WaPo: Desperate pilot used ax on locked cockpit door of doomed plane

  Color me skeptical, but I cannot imagine a circumstance in which a pilot on a plane takes an ax to the cockpit door & doesn't alarm passengers.