Why Do We Endlessly Retweet Tragedy?

This problem is older than hills. Remember 9/11 coverage? No matter how fast information moves, speculation will move faster.

The article also mentions how airplane travel is safe. It's not a question about the inherent safety or non-safety of travel. It's about trying to stop the most preventable deaths possible. It's not like society can only concentrate on one thing at once. It's the same fallacy for arguing against trying to prevent terrorist attacks. Why wouldn't we want to minimize the risk of having some (more or less) random event killing a large group of people at once?

Nevermind the fact that things going wrong on an airplane can have much worse consequences than things going wrong in a car. A wing breaking off is a lot worse than a car wheel falling off.