[puranjay]

In 1991, the number of deaths in air crashes was also nearly 5x the number of deaths in 2017. A plane crashing in 1991 was, for better or worse, just news.

But today, a plane crashing due to an engineering failure is rare enough that it makes headlines that people don't forget easily

[rangibaby]

> A plane crashing in 1991 was, for better or worse, just news.

IDK, the Lockerbie and TWA crashes were all over the news for what seemed like years

[NeedMoreTea]

They weren't "just" plane crashes. Most of the follow up surrounded the terrorism and hunt for the bombers...