OMG, My WORST Nightmare...
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That is what you get for flying one of the shittiest airlines out there. Next time check up reviews and trip reports on Airliners.net and FlyerTalk.com before choosing a airline.
PS: A good read. Questions & Answers | Ask the Pilot
PS: A good read. Questions & Answers | Ask the Pilot
I have no problem flying a 35 year old plane if it is maintained very properly. Europe has one of the strictest air safety regulations and they are strictly enforced. Same goes for India. It is not a matter or how old the planes are but how well they are maintained.
Yeah, this freaks my the fuck out. I'm flying out of MIA in less than a month, and I already have visions of myself speeding towards the ground, my body never to be recovered and my internet properties expiring.
LOL... that'd be the least of my worries if I was hurling to my death at > 100 mph!
need life insurance and a will then so a loved one gets rich from your demise son!
I've been in one of these situations... the right engine actually blew up and fell off the plane shortly after takeoff from Denver (Stapleton Intl... the old airport before they switched to the illuminati one). If you've never seen people praying for their lives, having panic attacks and throwing up out of fear on a plane, you haven't lived yet.
So what? The plane didn't crash. Nobody was hurt.
Part of the plane failed, but it wasn't catastrophic, so the plane's engineering did its job IMO.
Part of the plane failed, but it wasn't catastrophic, so the plane's engineering did its job IMO.
Aw shit... this is too much, 2 plane-related articles in 2 minutes:
US investigating possible mail bomb terror plot - Yahoo! News
US investigating possible mail bomb terror plot - Yahoo! News
FUUUUUUUCK. I think I'd go into cardiac arrest pretty quick.
So... which of the above were you doing? And, did your incident make it on an episode of Air Crash Investigation?
I was traveling with my parents and cousin... we all had our heads down (as instructed by a panicked flight attendant).. I think I was praying along with my parents. To be honest i don't remember too much aside from the woman in front of me was screaming about how she's too young to die, stuff like that.
I was young (4th grade) so I didn't really understand the gravity of the situation at the time.
..anyways it was a flight from DEN to MKE, and we made front page news in the Milwaukee Journal as well as national news that night. I was interviewed by a denver news crew and on local denver news apparently (although ive never seen it).
The REAL scary part about the situation was the brakes failed on landing and the plane had to go something like 1,000 feet off the runway before it stopped.. we found out later that had the ground not been frozen (wintertime) the wheels would have sunk in and the plane wouldve gone end over end and probably blown up.
Needless to say I used to LOVE flying up until that point. Every time I get on a plane I have to get completely drunk otherwise I'll panic the entire time. INTL flights are especially bad for me.
I always try and calm my nerves by saying "oh well I already went through my one bad experience so I'm fine" ... except that in the realm of statistics previous outcomes do not affect future ones.. and the probability of being in another "incident" is exactly the same, unfortunately.
Same, as a kid it was pretty normal, until one time I remember when the plane had to rapidly decrease altitude so you had the sensation that it was dropping. People weren't screaming, but from the loud gasps they were scared shitless.
I tried drinking before a flight once, I didn't get drunk but I had a fair amount and I thought it would help. It didn't, it actually made me more nervous. meh.
I was in a plane once where the landing gear wouldn't deploy. Everyone was freaking out, as we just flew around the airport in circles for what felt like days, but was probably just an hour or so. Eventually, they got the landing gear to work again and everyone cheered haha. Ever since then, I've hated flying.
Probably have a better chance of getting killed on a train than you do a plane.
LOL i know right, he's like thinking "shit i left my adwords campaign running"