Anti-skid on,
Your link to the Malaysian pilot's daughter's letter about her father (another Malaysian captain) brings a sense of reality to the world of civil aviation and its domestic tolls.
Thousands of families of airline pilots (& cabin crew!) worldwide would wholeheartedly agree with this daughter's sentiments. It is a career requiring dedication and commitment with good rewards (usually), but often with a heavy price for the families, although fortunately, only very rarely a price as heavy as this one on the 8th March.
Lorimer