"There are Others, like me.
I watch them cry, weep, suffer.
I watch them slip into hibernation,
disappear, descend into themselves
I watch them fade into darkness.
I want to go, too.
I awake… my body, arms, legs, torso, appendages,
Life extensions of myself,
My world,
My future,
They empower me to breathe, to wake, to eat, to be.
I am needed.
I am responsible.
I can’t go
I get up."

This is a segment from a poem written by Stephanie Read whose husband Royce died in a cargo crash in New York in 2001. This poem is one of three documents the Miami Herald has included in an impressive investigative story in which they sought to examine the number of cargo plane crashes. In a three part series called "Deadly Express" the Miami Herald uses a multimedia approach to poignantly illustrate 9 months worth of work which reveales more cargo plane crashes than the government logs indicate.

Using a database provided by the National Transportion Safety Board the Herald discovered 69 cargo crashes and 85 deaths in the U.S. since 2000. The Herald and lead reporter Ronnie Green reveal a business littered with risks "not encountered by passenger pilots," yet pilots earn less pay and log long hours in an effort to move up the ranks. For a publication often criticized for it's use of multimedia this is an impressive piece and one of the finest uses of multimedia to date from the Herald.