PARIS: After three major air disasters in one week, with planes coming down in Ukraine, Taiwan and then Mali without a single survivor, passengers can be forgiven for feeling a little pang of panic boarding their flights.

Waiting to check in at Paris’s Charles De Gaulle airport on Friday, Thai athlete Thapanat Rueangmanee, 25, admitted to being “a little bit nervous, like most of my friends.”

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