Larry Glazer co-founded Buckingham Properties was on board. According to his official bio, the company owns and manages more than 50 properties in the greater Rochester N.Y. area.

Or not.

Maybe they were afraid it could be a terrorist hijacking considering the crew was not responsive. It think it was because it was an unusual situation with frosting inside the plane and the occupants were probably already dead. A ghost plane. That type of crash is not the norm.

Same situation. Non-responsive, so they scrambled jets and followed it until it crashed in South Dakota, I think.

the American people got to enjoy the suspense of it as it happened. YAY! 24 hr. news!

a slow news day.

One of those things where they think it could be something, and when it turns out to be routine, they are so committed, they keep following the non-story.

I suspect that a large number of those crashes happen at takeoff or landing, with relatively few occurring mid-flight under circumstances like the current one.

That, I think, is sufficient to explain its newsworthiness.

that makes it newsworthy.

1. While a plane is unresponsive it could come down at any time, in the middle of the ocean or in downtown Atlanta.

2. It's genuinely creepy to think of and see a plane that looks completely normal carrying corpses to what everyone knows is going to be a crash.

3. Unresponsive planes are not common.

with scrambled military aircraft escorting it. Indeed the US military aircraft left the plane once it entered Cuban waters.

If it had crashed on land in Jamaica there could have been many deaths.

I do not have to let things that do not matter bother me. Ignore it and it will go away soon enough.

just noticed it was on the front page around the web and on some crawls.
I put as much thought into it as you did your post.
not bothered just a thought I had.

cares about.