Falling from the sky

This is so SAD it made me cry when I read it....some people think I am stupid because I try to avoid watching the news and reading the papers because I am so sensitive and I just feel so OVERWHELMED with sadness when I hear about all these poor people and their families.

It seems that this is the summer of the plane crash....First there was the Air France crash with, thankfully, no fatalities and just these past few days there have been 2 more plane crashes and unfortunately these passengers were not so lucky. May we take a moment of silence to remember the victims of the Cypriot Boeing Helios Airways flight that crashed in Greece this weekend:

GRAMMATIKO, Greece - A Cypriot plane full of vacationers slammed into a mountainside north of Athens on Sunday after at least one pilot lost consciousness from lack of oxygen, killing all 121 people aboard, more than a third of them children.
The cause of Greece's deadliest plane crash appeared to be technical failure - resulting in high-altitude decompression - and not terrorism, authorities said. A transport official said the 115 passengers and six crew may have been dead when the plane went down.
Helios Airways flight ZU522 was headed from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Athens International Airport when it crashed at 12:05 p.m. near Grammatiko, a scenic village 25 miles north of the Greek capital. Flaming debris, luggage and bits of human remains were strewn across two ravines and surrounding hills.

and in today's horrible crash in Venezuela:
PARIS French air officials say 153 passengers from Martinique died in the plane crash in western Venezuela today. The West Caribbean Airways flight was headed to the island from Panama. The mayor of a town that lost several residents says, "There are children who are orphans" today.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4154748.stm

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/08/16/Venezuela_plane_crash_20050816.html