Near miss with disaster in a jet, do you fly again and soon?

I wouldn’t be afraid to fly again. More thankful that I survived. Maybe my next flight I’d have a few valium to take the edge off.

Knowing me, it would scare the shit out of me and traumatize me out of flying for quite a while.

I hate flying anyway, so it wouldn’t really make any difference. I put up with what I have to.

I have had an incident like that happen to me flying to a destination, so I know it’s very scary. I was on a week long vacation and my dad wouldn’t let me switch my ticket to a train ticket. But he was able to help me get ahold of a doctor who prescribed me a traquilzer, so I would be asleep during the flight back.

Unless I had to fly on a regional African or Asian airline, I wouldn’t worry. Those planes are tough enough to handle the gyrations of a bit of turbulence, as long as they’re properly maintained.

Okay, I am not trying to act brave and tough, obviously it would affect me, but if we think how often we have diced with death on 4 wheels and gone right back to it, then flying is a teddy bear’s pic nic!

yes, flying is the safest means of transportation.

When it happened to me, I rented a car at the next layover; I wouldn’t even fly the rest of the way home. I really hate to fly, but I have plans to fly in a few weeks. Am already a little sick.

Yes of course. Though it is easy to say and harder to do after a mind bending experience like that. I was in a plane on the morning of 9/11 and I hate flying in the first place so not only did I have to then over come my fear of flying, I then had to overcome my fear of terrorists too!

I’d be scared, but you can die in a car, train, etc. all the same. I’d just have to take a picture of my friend and my ipod. I’d be a little trooper because I never like showing I’m scared.

Sphincter-slamming events like that have happened to me several times. Once in a 4-seater private plane we hit a bad t-storm. Sitting in the co-pilot seat, I could see even the pilot was freaking. But we landed safely and I was back on a commercial jet the next day. Another time in a commercial jet we lost avionics and had to return to our origination point. Sans controls, the landing was pretty rough, and I was too shook up to take the next plane out. Nonetheless, I’ve never stopped flying even though I’m not as comfortable on planes as I was in my daredevil youth.

Yeah, if I had to. What are the odds that the next plane I get on will also have a near miss or crash? They’re, uh, sky-high, I’d reckon.

Anyway, when it’s your turn, it’s your turn. All I ask is to be unconscious.

I was flying solo in a small aircraft. I was in the landing pattern waiting for my turn to land when another small aircraft in the pattern turned when he shouldn’t have. Basically he cut me off because he probably didn’t see me. Luckily I saw what he was doing and quickly dropped my altitude from 800 feet to about 600 feet as he flew over me. This was something as flying at 600 feet at 100 knots is not the best position. He would have hit me if I hadn’t avoided him.

I flew the next day.

I am never getting into an airplane again but not due to fear. The aggro is not worth it. Never a good traveler, I have seen what I need to see in faraway places and am now happy to stay put.

My idea of a good journey is the distance a horse and buggy could travel in a day.

Dear Captain:

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I have no problem with flying, but the bullshit associated with it at either end have caused me to swear off it unless absolutely necessary.

Soon but with drugs, even more drugs than I usually would need to get on the damned things. I hate being locked into a big silver thing. I like to be able to open the window and feel the breeze on my face. But wow, isn’t Alprazolam the most wonderful stuff!

Let’s not count our near misses driving around in cars. We might never use a car again.

@mattbrowne: But I don’t have to wait for two hours in line each morning in order to drive my car.

@ducky_dnl @mattbrowne I have been in 3 vehicle accidents, one of which the truck flipped all the way over in a 360 summersault and I am still here. Wonder how many jet chrashes I would survive?

I think after I was released from the mental ward I’d be good to go again.

@mattbrowne Each near miss in a car makes me more and more cautious. But at least you’re on the earth when it happens!

@Dutchess_III LOL !! I agree!

@Aster Yeah. The thought of being two miles (or whatever) above the earth and TOTALLY out of your own control freaks me out! But…I still fly.

@gailcalled – No, the waiting happens when you enter a busy highway ;-)

@Dutchess_III – I’d never caused an accident since I was 18 and my driving balance sheet shows a total of about 350,000 miles. Then last year at an interstate (autobahn) junction it happened. Wet weather, but I was the only car. I lost control and hit the guard railing. Extensive damage. It was my fault. Normally I would also have had to pay for the railing but at this spot dozens of cars lose control and it was already full of scratches and dents. They didn’t make me pay. I actually knew this was a dangerous spot and I had seen other damaged cars. Still, for a second or so I didn’t fully concentrate. It is prone to happen when you drive a lot. We are not perfect. I am not perfect. Pilots are not perfect. Engineers who build or service planes are not perfect. Technology is a blessing but there is a small price to pay. Absolute safety is an illusion. Excessive worry can cause more damage to our health by the way.

The accident happened at the so-called Frankfurter Kreuz and it is the busiest junction in the whole of Europe. After my accident they reduced the speed limit. I had a long talk with one of the policemen. It’s now 80 km/h 200 meters ahead of the bend and 60 km/h for wet weather. I proudly showed it to my wife couple of months later. See, my sign. At this famous junction. Can you believe it?

@mattbrowne After my accident they reduced the speed limit. I had a long talk with one of the policemen. It’s now 80 km/h 200 meters ahead of the bend and 60 km/h for wet weather. I proudly showed it to my wife couple of months later. See, my sign. At this famous junction. Can you believe it? You had an accident be it your own fault you lived to walk away fromit and make the roads safer and share the experience with your wife. Had it been a jet that crashed and you would just be along for the ride—or fall with no control, they might have found enough of you to fill a coffee tin that she can cry over before you are buried. Point well taken, I will take 5 vehicle accidence I can live through than expose myself to one jet crash where I will end up pizza toppings.

@mattbrowne Your name is “80 km/h 200 meters ahead of the bend and 60 km/h for wet weather”????? You lied to us!!

I haven’t been in a wreck of my causing since I was a teenager. It’s the freakazoids who try to pass long lines of cars around a curve or over a hill IN the dark, who are suddenly right there, in your face, the gap is closing at a combined speed of 170 mph who scare me!

What @Hypocrisy_Central said…if I’m going to be in a wreck, I’d rather be on the earf!