OK, I'm editing. My year seems to have been quite full of misreading things it would seem, unless V-T ninja'd me as I was about to press the quote button.
If you believe 2016 has been one of the worst years, James blunt has threatened to continue that trend into 2017:
64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble among the 92 people that where on the Russian plane that went down minutes after take off from Sochi earlier today.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38430164 Head wear eating will be involved if that turns out to have been an accident.
Well it's George Michael's Last Christmas... shouldn't have gone around giving his heart away, you kinda need it...
Between the history of the TU-154 and the Russian Air Force's famous standards of maintenance I would be very surprised if it wasn't.
2016 has been a momentous year for noteworthy deaths. So many have have died who meant so much to so many. R.I.P George.