"tony roberts" wrote in message
news:nospam-E2DBEA.20582917102005@shawnews...
It really is a difficult decision.
My thoughts right now are leaning to not flying related kids in the same
flight, but I truly do take your point about two families grieving as
opposed to one.

Of course, this debate is moot. The two youngsters killed in this accident
weren't siblings.

Still, I find the "seperate the kids" line of thought to not be suited to
the real world, in spite of any rational basis for it. Families travel
together all the time. They do other things together all the time. They
are in constant danger of perishing simultaneously, through much of the
childhood of the children of a family. Even as adults, they are in similar
danger quite often.

Being a family means you do things together. If two children have a desire
to participate in a single flight together, I think some fear that they both
might die in the same accident isn't justification for sacrificing the
enjoyment they get from doing things together.

Spending any effort to keep siblings apart, when they have a desire to be
together, draws attention to a reasonably tiny risk of death, sacrificing
the enjoyment of the moment. An enjoyment of the moment that *ought* to be
the focus and primary motivating factor.

Not that I should need any sort of example, but one need only look to Jay
Honeck's travel with his family in his airplane. This sort of thing happens
all the time in the aviation world, just as families travel together in
automobiles all the time. It just doesn't make sense, from an "enjoy life"
point of view, to waste time trying to keep families apart.

Pete