We could always agree to a gentleman's agreement in these dreadful and inevitable situations.
1. Primary. A condolence thread. The family of the lost hero are going to be trawling the interwebs.
2. Secondary. A news thread. "What the news is stating", no analysis - simply linking the news.
3. Tertiary. A conjecture thread. A discussion thread that is sensitive to the situation.
Op MINIMISE should be realized in 1 & 3 above.
Maybe the MODs could create all 3 threads above upon any incident/accident with an opening descriptor founding the rules of such a thread.
MM
Another forum I frequent does a similar thing where to even view the 'incidents' sub-forum requires a minimum number of posts by the forum member.
If anything, it would cut down on the moderator workload.