Besides the presidential couple, all other people on board the plane reportedly died, including the country's army chief, its deputy foreign minister, the Central Bank governor and scores of other officials, legislators and crew members.
VOA: standard.2010.04.10
Cruise ships, like their foreign-based crew members, are treated as fungible goods.
These events are capable of bearing a different interpretation: that of a series of reactions, in which a skeleton foreign-policy crew responds to happenstance events in a way that reveals preferences, but stops short of laying out a clear new agenda.