EastBay, I share your shock. I'm on the SEA-LAX or SEA-San Jose commute on a regular basis, and my records show I'd been a passenger on Ship 963 twice in 1999 alone... and the knowledge that the lost crew and FAs may have been hi-nice-to-see-you-again type friends of mine... doesn't bear dwelling on.

This was so close to home. It's been hard to sleep this week. And it gets harder as we learn exactly, precisely what the last ten minutes of Flight 261 were like. I love gazing down at the Malibu-to-Santa-Barbara coastline on climbout from LAX... my God. I pray for the folks lost.