Gawd damn. With the way athletes travel, it's surprising that this doesn't happen more often (now watch the whole UNC basketball team plunge to their deaths just before the Final Four next year, putting Duke in the semifinal).
But yeah, every time I'm on a flight I breathe a small sigh of relief once my plane gets off the ground, or hits the tarmac safely. Once you're in the air, it's gonna take a megastorm or a dune coon to take you down.
Anyway, sad loss of life. You'd think we could prevent this kind of shit by now.