blessed...so sad to lose lives. Wishing their families peace upon their hearts.

As far as this being a bad year for airlines...consider the death toll from driving on roads compared to airlines. The difference is that airline crashes make headlines...automobile crashed don't. Its still safer to fly than to drive.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the main difference between a dog and man.
-Mark Twain-