Remembering the victims of American Airlines flight 5342 from Wichita to Washington, D.C. By The Kansas City Star, Wichita Eagle, Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer Updated February 03, 2025 4:56 PM A promising ice skater who just celebrated her 13th birthday. A college student from Kansas on her way back to school. A Charlotte flight attendant who made flying fun for passengers so they didn’t get scared. They were among more than 60 people killed Wednesday night when a commercial airliner from Wichita crashed into a military helicopter while approaching Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. In the wake of the worst aviation disaster in the United States in years, McClatchy journalists from across the country are working to tell the story of each person who lost their life in the crash.
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Ok, there are pages like this all over the TV, internet and Facebook memorializing the people on flight 5342.
It was a horrible accident that never should of happened.
That said, I have to wonder why I'm so troubled by all the coverage and tributes.
Am I just getting old, am I becoming an A-hole?
Or am I more realistic in my age.
67 people perished in the 1st US airline fatality in 16 years.
16 years...67 deaths, let that sink in.
43,000 people die in car accidents every year in the US, on average 114 people will die TODAY in US traffic accidents.
Where are their memorial pages, outcries, stories going on and on about them day after day in the media.
Are all these deaths any less important? Or has it become just so common, that we don't even think about it. Or don't want to think about it.
Like the war in the Ukraine. From round the clock coverage to, is it still going on?
My heart goes out to the families effected by this tragedy, but it also goes out to the other 114 not talked about.
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Ok, there are pages like this all over the TV, internet and Facebook memorializing the people on flight 5342.
It was a horrible accident that never should of happened.
That said, I have to wonder why I'm so troubled by all the coverage and tributes.
Am I just getting old, am I becoming an A-hole?
Or am I more realistic in my age.
67 people perished in the 1st US airline fatality in 16 years.
16 years...67 deaths, let that sink in.
43,000 people die in car accidents every year in the US, on average 114 people will die TODAY in US traffic accidents.
Where are their memorial pages, outcries, stories going on and on about them day after day in the media.
Are all these deaths any less important? Or has it become just so common, that we don't even think about it. Or don't want to think about it.
Like the war in the Ukraine. From round the clock coverage to, is it still going on?
My heart goes out to the families effected by this tragedy, but it also goes out to the other 114 not talked about.
