A Little Close to Home

Some of the people we holidayed with in Venezuela this past summer sent me a news report this morning, indicating that there has been a plane crash off the coast of Venezuela. The plane was flying from the airstrip at Los Roques (where we spent an idyllic three days on the beach) back to Caracas.

A sad event...which turned very disconcerting when the Venezuelan press released the details of the plane itself. Its registration number matched that of the very same plane aboard which our group flew back to Caracas - this one:


Searchers are still trying to find the plane, apparently - and there were 14 people on board.

Even though logic tells us that flying is far and away the safest form of travel, things like this are still a little bit scary. :-/