Plane crashes

You know what fascinates me? Plane crashes. I have Wikipedia'd every single plane crash there ever was and even went as far as reading each official NTSB report. I am not normally fascinated with tragic deaths but just find plane crashes so extraordinary. Maybe it's the complexity of the machine itself, maybe it's the connection to me aspiring to be a pilot myself, maybe it's watching The Aviator, or maybe it's the people, how so many lives are touched by a single event.

Each crash I have read about I always attach myself to a certain set of facts or circumstances. For instance recently you've heard the NTSB's investigation of the flight 3407, the Continental charter from Newark, NJ to Buffalo. And you've heard that the pilots were inexperienced and failed to save or prevent the plane from crashing the way it did. I find that so depressing yet so interesting. I can't help but think of the families victims who now have to live with the fact that they could have been alive if someone else were flying the plane. Then I think of the families of the two pilots who have the grief of losing a loved one on top of grief from FAA, NTSB blaming their loved one for basically crashing the plane. The scream, the last audible before impact must be a harrowing sound.

Why does this stuff fascinate me?