All of the news sites are down--I imagine everyone is trying to download articles about this morning's plane crash in Queens. The fact that it happened on take-off makes me really think it was just mechanical--not the "just mechanical" is any kind of relief to anyone, specifically those in the plane and in the houses the plane hit. Things felt scary enough before--but now, now you could just be sitting in your house, having breakfast, and a plane could come nosediving toward you. American Airlines is truly going to be having a hard time now. In a way, it will be worse if it's mechanical--you can increase airport security all you want, but if something is going to fail on the plane when it's mid-air, there's not a whole lot you can do about it. I'm personally feeling very freaked out about the idea of getting on a plane in two weeks to go to Fernely. More than that, I'm really uncomfortable leaving home for two weeks when so much seems to be going on.