That Blew Up Real Good

This sort of thing turns your stomach when you think of what the people on board must have suffered. On the other hand, it provides a voyeuristic thrill, which you try to atone for by coming up with philosophical rationales.

What do we make of this sight to justify our sick fascination?
Well, for one thing, it is vaunted modern technology going agley.

Let that be a lesson for our hubris. Do we think we can play God? Was man meant to fly? (If so, he'd have wings.)
Look what happened to the unsinkable Titanic (admittedly, it did not explode). All those rich people at the height of luxury, and look what good it did them.
What about the Hindenberg? The great German technology the Nazis crowed about. And to think it ended up as another smoky fire in New Jersey.
The Challenger Space Shuttle. We beat the Russians to the moon. Americans can do everything better than anybody else (including spectacular explosions).
Concorde -- the fastest and safest passenger plane in the world. And what happened? A blown tire, a careless bird, a negligent mechanic? They will spend mucho bucks figuring this one out, but your jet setters will still want to get to London in three hours.
Of course, the Concorde crash willl be blamed in the end on the pilot -- big corporations and governments don't make mistakes, which is what they spend so much money to prove. It had to be human error.