It's been a week now since the tragedy of Laoag International Airlines' plane mishap caught media and government attention.  There had been great concern to Philippine tourism in general and local surfing in particular because included those who died were Australian surfers. I learned that they cancelled their trip to Bali, after the bombing, and instead consider flying to Laoag and heading off to the island of Badoc.

Nevertheless, it was clearly understood from the initial investigation that crash was not a terrorist attack. Let's just hope that no such incident would happen again and negligence should have its consequence for those accounted for it.

I watched the news yesterday and their bodies are now brought back to Sydney and Brisbane.

Let's extend prayers for those who died in this accident.

Link I got from international website:
http://content.surfline.com/sw/content/mag/pulse/2002/2/11_13_cr ash.jsp

Lets not forget all the Filipinos who all died on that plane as well. It should not take the deaths of foreigners to bring this to our attention. My condolences go out to the families of all the victims. Unfortunately with cost cutting throughout the world and a decline in Tourism to certain countries we will probably and unfortunately see more and more accidents of this type happen throughout the world. Dont let things like these unfortunate accidents or these henious acts of terror that are happening at the moment deter you from travelling and surfing. Life is a risk live it as best you can.
Cheers
PS  Yep I am not writing this in disrespect for you so please dont think that I am.

I agree with you Mark.   Carpe Diem... let's seize the day!!!