I wouldn't have bat an eye except these researchers constituted almost half the passengers!

Makes you wonder....

Right. Because if he invented a cure, he would wait for a convention to tell anyone and didn't write it down. /s

The companies make to much money off the current drugs for patients, you really think if a multi billion dollar drug company found a cure for HIV they'd patent it and start curing people who have to spend a crap load of cash their entire lives on a bucket filled with their medicine? Sorry but these companies don't think like Dr. Jonas Solk , its all about Money,shareholders,money,share holders.

I know nothing of airline policies or international flights but considering the "war zone" and other aircrafte being downed one would IMAGINE fuel conservation would be less of a concern considering what was at stake.

Too late now i suppose.

Let alone those people who somehow managed to lose loved ones on this latest flight and the prior one... I cannot imagine.

People deal with death every day all over the world, but situations like this when it is so unexpected and so forth, hurts in different ways.

I agree with your above statement in the regional/corporate-policy sense which is how i took the reference to "asian" airlines. Too many companies of all types cut corners that get innocent people killed. Can't recall the American car company of late. Cover ups, all that...

I'm with you on the guitar, and I'd like to learn Japanese so I can relocate to Japan... GinJoeKnee lol