1.   Four passengers died at the scene, all from Palmdale.

2.   Not one passenger has died in a fire aboard a cruise ship during this decade.

3.   One commuter sitting five rows from the front of the first car thinks he watched a fellow passenger die.

4.   One elderly passenger died, four others were hospitalized and half a dozen children were pulled from the water by frantic parents fighting for their own lives.

5.   Seventy-seven ferry passengers died.

6.   Some passengers died in their seats.

7.   The passenger almost always dies.

8.   The passengers died amid a fire started or fueled by the oxygen canisters.

9.   Three other passengers also died, as did the pilot, Richard Buschmann.