Didn't they watch the Tom Hank's movie?!! You fly around or above the weather and definitely not through a thunderstorm, unless you have a soccer ball. What the hell was that airline and captain thinkking,,,?!! "Flying blind" is NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE !!!!!
It is bad enough that modern passenger jets do not have radar and have to rely on air traffic coordinators. According to the CNN broadcast this morning, 1 june 2009, the plane did not even have a $100 GPS unit on it ,so it could be tracked by satellite!! No one knows where this large passenger jet is, what happened to it, if there are any survivors, or where in the Atlantic it might be !!
Expect the airline industry to come out with the same propaganda of 'it is the safest mode of mass transit, even safer than getting up out of bed,,,or walking across San Francisco". These are preventable crashes and therefore are UNACCEPTABLE IN THE FUTURE; whether 'human error' or 'part malfunction' we and the industry should have a much higher standard ,than to constantly sacrifice your relatives or you,,,or someone's relatives,,,on the p.r. standard of 'safer than' vs SAFE AS CAN BE.
Have you had enough yet of irresponsible companies and governments running airlines like people and their very lives did not matter ????? Isn't it time for the USA and Europe to lead , leadership, the world into the 21st century with satellite tracking of all airplanes and much safer basic standards for any airplane with a person/people on board ?
Be prepared to hear from United and Delta and all the major airlines that they can not afford such basic safety upgrades 'at this time' ,,,and be prepared to tell them 'now, or we will not longer fly!!' Be prepared for governments to say that during an economic world crisis like now that 'this is not the right time to spend lots and lots of money on basic airline and airport safety',,,and you can tell them 'we would rather spend it on this than those greedy fat-cat irresponsible negligent selfish and despicable bankers!!".
