Emily wrote:

Peter R. wrote:
Emily wrote:

Why this
is more news than any other small airplane crash is beyond me, though.

NY City, which is really still deeply scarred from 9/11, experiences
another aircraft crashing into a building. It is understandable why there
was a sensationalistic reaction.

I was more speaking about the reaction here. It's all over the news,
everyone at work has been asking me about it. Same thing happened in
Tampa in 2001, and didn't cause this much talk. Whenever the media
publicizes a "celebrity" dying in a small plane crash, it hurts GA.

Tampa is quite a bit different from New York City, particularly with respect to
the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which also involved airplanes crashing into tall
buildings.