Besides the compensation payments stipulated by law, police officers who lose their lives to uphold the law are often a focus of substantial news media coverage, which brings their families donations from sympathetic private benefactors, but pilot accidents receive relatively limited attention from the public.
而在法定的撫卹金外，警察因維護治安殉職，經常是社會新聞的焦點，民間常有數目可觀的慰問金捐助；飛行員意外罹難，得到的社會關懷就相當有限了。