The past two weeks have been very bad for air travel, beginning with the shooting down by Russia-armed ethnic Russian rebels in Ukraine of Malaysian Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 that claimed 298 lives, and the crash of TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 from bad weather that resulted in 48 deaths, and an Air Algerie aircraft crash, also perhaps from bad weather according to initial reports, that killed 116.

Earlier, on March 8, MAS Flight MH370 was said to have plunged into the Indian Ocean with 227 passengers and 12 crewmen.

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