The crash of the ValuJet DC-9 on Saturday, May 11 was a terrible tragedy, with 109 people losing their lives.

In the Bangor Daily News’ May 14 edition, you tell us that workers found the flight recorder, which, hopefully, will tell us what caused this awful thing to occur.

However, I was very upset by the choice of words that were used to describe how the Metro-Dade medical examiner’s office reported “removing seven body bags full of hundreds of small pieces of human remains, many too small to determine what parts of the body they were, let alone to whom they belonged.”

Please, where is your compassion? How do you think the friends and family of the young woman from (Carmel) felt when they read this vivid description? Your readers are not stupid! When it was reported that the plane exploded on impact, don’t you think we knew what happened to these victims? We don’t need to have a picture drawn for us. I realize this story came from The New York Times, but couldn’t you have left this part our of the Bangor Daily News? I am not familir with The New York Times, but apparently they thrive on sensationalism. Lois M. Farr Dover-Foxcroft