Currently on the BBC Espanol Website's front page lies a picture of the tail end of Air France flight 447 that crashed on its way from Paris to Rio de Janiero two years ago. The flight mysteriously vanished and plummeted into the ocean killing all 227 people on board. Now, two years after the deadly crash, workers have uncovered the wreck site of the crash and are excavating bodies for burial. This is a large story in the Spanish culture because some of the people on the flight were of Spanish decent. The hardship comes in the fact that the Spanish believe in proper burials for their dead. They believe that one's soul can only rise to heaven after it is buried. However, their relatives and loved one's bodies have been unburied at the bottom of the sea for nearly 2 years.
What is even worst is that these people have no closure as to what has happened to their family. They do not even know how they died or if they suffered. This news definitely recieves special media attention because it speaks to the hearts of all people who have lost someone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2011/04/110405_francia_af447_accidente_familias_drama_pl.shtml
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