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Originally Posted by tturedraider
I used to not think much about it when I’d fly, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve become a more nervous flyer. Particularly on takeoff and a little bit on landing. On takeoff I hold on to the armrests very tightly. Because, of course, if anything happens that will save me.  I don’t worry too much about falling out of the sky from 30,000 feet, but I’m more aware these days that if something goes wrong on takeoff (particularly with the engines) there’s almost no time to fix it. I guess this incident should actually ease my mind a little. It’s pretty amazing what these airframes can handle. I’m thinking of the Hawaii Airlines catastrophic airframe failure many years ago and the time a cargo door failed on a 747 and tore out a huge section of the forward cabin and both of those planes landed safely. |
Those are the scariest moments for me as well — I'm usually pretty indifferent to the flight itself — but that drop as you're climbing — FML. Of course with Xanax, or a lot of cognac if it's business class — I fall asleep right as we take off)))
Oh yea, I torture myself with these disaster videos. That Aloha airlines is one hell of a mayday!
The only 747s that come to mind are flight 800 and of course the Pan Am bombing, but neither of those landed...