i am not trying to down play this event as it was very serious, but there are bus crashes like this all the time all over the world,
here is just another random example, that happened only a few days before humboldt, with almost the same amount of fatalities,
https://wtop.com/middle-east/2018/04/kuwait-bus-crash-kills-15-indians-egyptians-and-pakistanis/
this is really a serious question out of curiousity,
why don't tragedies like this one get as much support, news and media coverage as the humboldt crash did? is it just because they were a team and were young?
My opinion... my first thought is because hockey is such a huge sport in Canada, and that would have been the initial 'attraction' to the story. Not everyone loves it, not everyone played organized hockey, but it would be really hard to find someone that didn't play hockey on the street with their friends, or at an outdoor rink in the winter, or at school. For myself, and I know many others... it was that thought that it could have been my son's team, my cousins, my nephews, my brothers, my daughters, my nieces... hockey is just a part of my family, and it was too easy to imagine the moments before that bus crash, young men, and a young lady, going to play a playoff game to "stay alive" in the playoffs (how brutal that sounds now, but that is the way it would have been worded earlier that day).
As for the support... the hockey community is bigger than just Canada... and it has lots of money! There were Canadian companies that support hockey in local communities that stepped up, there were NHL teams that donated, makers of hockey equipment that donated, hockey players that donated. Honestly, we donated the next morning before it had even hit a million and I was happy to see it hit 1 million, more for the kids that survived and will have to deal with life long injuries/changes. To see it hit 15 million ... I was amazed.
I guess I don't know the answer to your question after all... I often wonder why some cases here at websleuth or in the media get more attention than others... I often wonder why some cases grasp me... and others don't. I think it all comes down to if we can relate, and I think in this case, there were thousands... actually, probably millions that could relate.
