Follow Ups on Lexington Crash

Couple of follow ups on yesterday's plane crash in Lexington:

1) Conservative Edge writer Leland Conway notes in a post about the evacuation problems of the aircraft:

Our source tells us that it was obvious at the crash site that many of the victims survived the initial impact, but died trying to escape the plane. The CJ200 model has three emergency exits, two of which are directly over the wings on either side of the fuselage. This is significant because the fuel tanks on this plane are located on the wings and this is where the hottest part of the fire was burning. Recovery workers on the site believe that it would have been impossible to escape because of this.

In a previous post, he noted that when the passengers were found, they were no longer strapped to their seats.  Much as the Carrollton, KY bus crash caused the addition of strategically placed emergency exits on buses, hopefully the same will be thought out about aircraft construction.

2) Many blogs have been commenting about the plane crash skit that was left in the Emmy show on NBC last night.  You can see much of the roundup at this post at HotAir.

I am struck by many of the insensitive comments left on some blogs, and even insensitive posts on a particular blog.    I realize that much of this post was to slam Conan O'Brian and NBC, in that many people will remember the accident but won't remember the skit.  However, to include the statement "So we mourn the tragic loss of 49 lives in Kentucky, blah blah blah" is rather cruel.  Maybe I don't get it.  Maybe mourning is a serious thing for some of us, that we'd take a comment like that as an insult.  Maybe some of us respect those in mourning a little more than that.

-Colonel Steve