Air France Jet Disappears on Flight From Brazil to Paris

absolutely. seems like in a car it would be driving along just fine then suddenly... CRASH!! in a airplane you already have that fear while your in the air then something goes wrong and as your plane is falling to the ground you have the terrifying and ufortinate realization that your going to die.

So really, then it's a matter of what scares you more. Seeing it coming-or not seeing it coming. I love to fly, every chance I get, I fly. That is to say, it doesn't happen often, because I never have the money to go anywhere. But if I did, I would fly all the time.


That being said, it IS safer then driving in a car, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily safe. Putting your life in the hands of a pilot that may or may not be a practicing alcoholic or too tired from flying 18 straight hours or whatever is definitely not safe. Safer, yes. Not safe. Shoot, walking across the street to 7-11 for a soda isn't safe anymore. Going to work isn't safe, or school. But it (flying) is safer.

I was talking to some friends about the possibilities of what happened but it really does seem terrifying, even if they were all passed out. It become like what happened to Stewart expect the plane is slowly getting ripped apart...

At least some families can find some closure now:

washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061103969.html)

Did the finger point to what cause his death?

No one else caught this?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D

this is so sad. first you lose a loved one in a horrible crash, then you actually get back their remains?? what's left?? i mean i can't imagine getting remains from a loved that fell 40,000 feet into the ocean, then the body, or what's left of it is floating in the ocean for a week. if it were me i'd just want my remains to stay in the ocean. sad very very sad and my heart goes out to the people and their famlies that lost loved ones.

i'm not expert on plane crashes but i remember reading about when john denver died and he crashed in the ocean. i think i read that he weighed 200lbs and they only found 100lbs of his body.

Weird story about Stewart. My mom was one of the leads on his autopsy and confirming his cause of death. So, a few days after his death, there's a message on our home answering machine (yeah it was answering machines back then) from one of her assistants saying "I left Payne Stewart's fingers on your desk for you to review. We'll catch up tomorrow" I think it was actually some bone and tissue, not his actual finger. But still...one of the oddest messages I've heard

that pretty gross. i mean why would they even perform an autopsy? i'm sure there really wasn't mush left of anyone when a plane nose dives into the ground.

that pretty gross. i mean why would they even perform an autopsy? i'm sure there really wasn't mush left of anyone when a plane nose dives into the ground.

Confirm time and cause of death. Pretty much have to do when a plane is involved and NTSB steps in

Speaking of Stewart

Payne Stewart's son, Aaron, follows in his father's footsteps - ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/usopen09/news/story?id=4260509)

blame it on the a a a

Time is running out on finding the flight recorders:

The Associated Press: Official: No black box signals from Flight 447 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iOegnahAFcEgwJZ4WKGkVz9Dgq5wD990AS5O4)

Air France plane crashed vertically into ocean | World news | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/02/air-france-crashed-vertically)

man, these poor people what a nightmare