Flying is dangerous in America

The recent death of John F. Kennedy Jr reminds me of a similar accident two years ago when musician John Denver was tragically killed near Los Angeles. Both men were flying their own planes.

While Kennedy was famous on a political level, Denver found his fame with his chart-topping melancholic songs, such as Sunshine and Country Road.

As both of them were important American celebrities, I wish to pose the following question: Should they have been flying their own planes?

If I was Denver or Kennedy, I would never have flown small planes. Unlike Indonesian skies, American skies are naturally risky with such phenomenons as tornadoes where winds spin in a pipe formation at a speed of about 450kph. Such things rarely take place in Indonesia. In my city of Bandung, I have never seen one.

According to the law of probability, if you fly a small plane in the dark sky, you might (with great probability) have an unexpected accident. Didn't the two ill-fated, famous Americans have private advisors or close friends who would warn them of the great risks they faced while flying a small aircraft?

ODO FADLOELI

Bandung