Originally Posted by
exbayern
To paraphrase someone here (I cannot find the original quote

) that incident involved a lot of brown people flying from some country somewhere north of the US to some other insignificant country, and oh yes, some other non-American somewhere on the ground in Asia. (To be clear, that poster didn't feel that way, but was trying to explain why it was not on the US conciousness when it comes to airline safety)
It also involved travelers from an intermediate country and airport that many americans are familiar with.