All the people in the Malaysian airlines crash died – was it due to their own past karma?

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Thank you So when the Malaysian Airlines crashed And all the people died Was it because of their own karma? Generally As I said Every particular event Has to be placed In the most constructive context Constructive means How can we act Constructively over there So if I say Oh this heat is because The climate change is there And the climate change is there because The corporate controlled Industry, the corporate controlled Economies are so exploitative Well that may be true But can I do anything about it right now? Immediately I can’t So we have to Place things in the most constructive Context So generally if somebody is Suffering, if somebody is distressed Somebody has been victimized Now there is no We should never resort to victim blaming If somebody has been Victimized in this life We have to treat them like they are victims And it is bad, it is unfair Philosophically Actually yes, what happens to us It is probably a result Of our own past karma So people who die In terrible calamities Terrible accidents They had some karma because of which it happened But Things can have multiple causations And from this life’s perspective It is a catastrophe A terrible thing And as much as possible We have to take measures To prevent such things from happening So the idea Is that if we can Plug things At this level Itself, then we should Try to plug things at that level But if things cannot Be plugged at that level Then rather than just becoming Feeling simply helpless And thinking that the world is a Horrible place where Anything can go wrong at any time And it is so Horribly insecure There is some higher principle That is operating So a doctor is meant to treat the patients To the best of their capacity But sometimes such an epidemic Comes up It is just not humanly possible to treat everyone Who is sick at that.
You try as much as you can But what can we do about it otherwise So as long as Things are in our control We do the best that we can But when things go beyond our control For accepting We put that in the context that There was Something happening In the bigger picture Some past karma that was coming Because of which it happened So past karma is never to be taken As an excuse For not doing One’s present dharma We have our present duty And it is important for us to do that present duty So Malaysian airlines can’t say Past karma because of which people crashed They have to inquire and find out What caused the crash of this plane And they have to take responsibility To prevent recurrences of such things But when despite Our best efforts Something just happens Then we can say that it is past karma Let’s accept it and move on Does it answer your question? Probably