Question about Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 Crash

[james_davis_nicoll]

This article gives a list of fatalities by nationality. One detail jumped out at me.

 Nationality 	Passengers/Crew 	  Fatalities             %
 Netherlands 	       53 	             0                   0
 Turkey 	       51 (inc. 7 crew)      5 (inc. 4 crew)    10% 
 United States 	        7 	             4                  57%
 United Kingdom 	3 	             0                   0 
 Germany 	        1 	             0                   0
 Bulgaria 	        1 	             0                   0
 Italy        	        1 	             0                   0
 Taiwan 	        1 	             0                   0
Total 	              118 	             9                   8%

Were the Americans all seated in the same section of the plane? At least three of the crew killed were in the cockpit; it would make sense if the Americans just had the misfortune of clustering in a section that, like the cockpit, sustained heavy damage.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

People in an organized tour tend to be seated together, also, and tours tend to cluster nationalities---i.e., a tour may have a large proportion of Germans, some Brits, a few Scandinavians, fewer from North America, and there's usually a stray Kiwi or Australian.