You have to feel for this poor woman

[harley_babes_hoard]

This Sydney lady lost 3 relatives in both the Malaysian airplane crashes. How unlucky can you be.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/07/18/woman_loses_relatives_in_both_malaysia_air_disasters.ht...

[purple_haize]

I feel very sorry and sad for her.

But why would they travel on the Malaysian flight, after what happened a few months back, on a plane that is still missing?

Maybe it is just me, but I wouldnt be travelling with Malaysian airlines, not now, not ever.

[kopenhagen5]

On the other hand maybe Malaysian is now the safest. 

Couldn't happen a third time type of thing.

And yes, tragic bad luck for the family.

Then there was the Dutch cyclist that missed both MH370 and MH17.

He said he is flying Malaysian again.

[harley_babes_hoard]

The second crash was really not the fault of the airline itself. My brother in law flies Malaysian every week he lives in Brisbane and travels to Malaysia and Indonesia for work every week.

[purple_haize]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

On the other hand maybe Malaysian is now the safest. 

Couldn't happen a third time type of thing.

And yes, tragic bad luck for the family.

Then there was the Dutch cyclist that missed both MH370 and MH17.

He said he is flying Malaysian again.

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No, I dont think they are the safest, and if I wanted to go to that part of the world, would choose another airline, one that I have been on before.

[mugssy65]

Funny but at least one passenger commented to friends before the flight "lightening doesn't strike twice" how wrong can you be?

[kopenhagen5]

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:
The second crash was really not the fault of the airline itself. My brother in law flies Malaysian every week he lives in Brisbane and travels to Malaysia and Indonesia for work every week.

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Neither was the first if the pilot decided to suicide.

However some say the pilot in MH370 was not fit to fly.

And the pilots in MH17 chose not to deviate from flight path even though all airline companies had been advised to take a wide berth around the conflict area.

The 777 could still be one of the safest airliners in that case.

[lurker172602]

I saw saw this today in a piece about fear of flying

[***super_nova***]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

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And the pilots in MH17 chose not to deviate from flight path even though all airline companies had been advised to take a wide berth around the conflict area.

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I do not think it is up to the pilot to choose a path, and Malaysian was not the only airline to choose to fly over this region.  Although pilots can decide to change their flight path, with consultation/on advice of traffic controllers, if the is a reason to do so.   And the pilots did deviate from the path they was on; the plane was some 14km off course.  There should be some conversation between them and the air traffic controllers, which should explain why they were off course. 

MH17 was in the wrong place in the wrong time; it could have happened to any one of the  planes in the air in that region that day. I saw somewhere there were 2000 of them).  

[polksaladallie]

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@lurker172602 wrote:

I saw saw this today in a piece about fear of flying

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In Australia cancer accounts for 3 in 10 deaths. 

In Australia heart attacks account for 14 in 100 deaths.

I would guess that the other stats are way off also.