As another poster mentioned above - most pilots tend to study accident reports to file them away in their memory for later possible reference. Any instance of

As another poster mentioned above - most pilots tend to study accident reports to file them away in their memory for later possible reference. Any instance of crew communication breakdown or wrong decision making can happen again, and knowledge that it did happen before will lessen the chances in the future. I see a lot of comments on Twitter today along the lines of "What is happening in aviation these days??", and the answer is really "Nothing really". Commercial flying is safer than it ever has, and it is telling that an accident such as this is garnering so much attention because they don't really happen all that often, so air crashes seem worse because they are not always in the news as they were decades ago. You have to consider the fact that these days, at any particular second of any day, there are more than a million people who are airborne at the same time. That is a city load of people who are not in contact with the ground at any given time. Given that - the low number of fatalities is remarkable indeed.