One can question, is it a merging of circumstances? Three major airline tragedies happen this week, at Ukraine, Taiwan then Mali not counting the missing Malaysian Airline in March. Aviation experts said, there have been seven commercial aircraft accidents so far this year. Aviation expert McGee said, airline accidents have actually declined significantly over the past years, but the number of commercial airline fatalities has risen in 2014. A lot of people especially travellers are questioning air safety. Accordingly, most fatal accidents were attributed to maintenance, pilot error, flying over regional hotspots, the weather and other factors. McGee said, people also have the idea that the world is linked in a technological sense, but it's not true to many parts of the world except the tracking capabilities of the US. According to data flying is generally safe, the odds are only about one in 14 million in US and Canada, one in 2 million in India and Brazil, and one in 800,000 in Africa and Latin America. Except for a few, the global travel consumer has actually a short memory concerning this thing.

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The Mission to Seafarers organised an event last Sunday as Sea Sunday. Christian churches all over the world highlighted the plight of abandoned seafarers as part of services of thanksgiving and prayer to mark the role of seafarers. The Mission, which works in 71 countries, says it "provides essential emergency support to those seafarers who become the innocent victims of bankrupt shipowners and who can be stranded for months while long legal battles are fought.