There's been good coverage of a couple good air disasters in The Onion over the years, this one's my favorite:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28494
Like the FAA says:
"There is special providence in the fall of the sparrow," Whelan said. "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what isn't to leave betimes? Let be."
Or in other words, sh*t happens.