Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, said she was supposed to be on the plane that crash-landed in San Francisco on Saturday.
After Flight 214, a Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines flying from Seoul, South Korea, crashed at the San Francisco International Airport, Sandberg posted a series of public status updates on her Facebook profile that said she and her family were nearly on the flight.
"My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed," she wrote. "We switched to United so we could use miles for my family's tickets."
Her posts received thousands of likes and sympathetic comments on Facebook, but some people on Twitter said they thought her update was inappropriate.
Ugh. News shouldn't be about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg not being on SFO plane crash. Focus on poor souls who were. http://t.co/lfVDpY1Tqw— Bonnie Burton (@bonniegrrl) July 6, 2013
I DON’T CARE ABOUT SHERYL SANDBERG I ONLY CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY WERE ON THE PLANE— Christian (@ChristianHears) July 6, 2013
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