Airplane paranoia?

Question

I am going to ride on a plane soon. I hate doing this because I always think something bad is going to happen. What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Don't be scared. Airlines are safe. Its the ride to the airport you should be worried about. Just think about this. Every time a plane crashes they show it on the news. Now think about if every time there was a car wreck they showed it on the news. Every one of every day. Now witch scares you more?

I lived overseas the first 10 years of my life and my family flew from Dubai, UAE back to good ol Oklahoma every summer for those 10 years. It was two eight hour flights and an hour flight from Dubai to here and then we went back at the end of the summer. Never any problems what so ever. I fell in love with flying and now I'm a 100 hour private pilot with instrument rating. All that flight time and no major problems. Flying is safe. Just enjoy the ride! :-)

Answer 2

It's ok to fly. Most deaths in aircraft are fire related, so you really should have fears of burning to death. And if you do survive the fire its a given that you'll have lifelong survivors guilt and will be a basket case and will likely do a public television documentary interview on the crash 20 years from now. But would you really want to be alive after such trauma? Many burn victims often say they'd rather have died.

Remember the size of the fireball you saw on 9/11 as planes hit the buildings?

Answer 3

Don't be scared. It's easier to win a lottery than a plane crash. Did you know the airplane is the safest transportation in the world. Most people worry about airplane is because they do not understand how airplane work. If you are still scare, let the knowledge to cure it.

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Answer 4

airplane are very safe in fact the drive to the airport is the most dangerous part. airplane are put through a very extensive inspection at a minium of once a year this is called an annual inspection if the aircraft is for hire then it is inspected once every 100 hours. and the pilots go through a very rigours flight training program

Answer 5

I'm frequent flyer and believe me flying is safer than driving in a car. Plus I have no choice... my flights are mostly overseas.

Try to relax, close your eyes, put on your mp3 player with your favorite music (when you are allowed to) or bring a portable DVD player. Anything that you can find that relaxes you and can take your mind of what can happen.

For long overseas flight I would take a sleeping aid and just sleep for the 7 - 14 hours.

Tomorrow I'm flying to Vancouver... a piece of cake... only 3 hours.

You'll be safe! :)

Answer 6

extreme blood pressure is more effective like;ly to reason a burst cerebral aneurysm - are you particular you've a cerebral aneurysm?? I have had one, which (i do not want to scare you the following) burst about 2 hours after I were given off a plane, yet i imagine it might have burst quicker or later and the plane did not have a lot to do with it - eating a lot on holiday and smoking like a chimney were more effective in all chance to have led to it. have you ever had any indicators that would want to lead you to believe you actual have an aneurysm, like issues? See your clinical specialist till now you go on holiday and set your ideas at relax. in case you do actual have an aneurysm, it will want to be dealt with besides.

Answer 7

Statistically you are more apt to die in your bathroom than on an airplane.

If you're one who can't understand how it's possible to take a big ol' metal thing and make it actually fly, try not to worry about it. Trust in the engineers who invented it and have "perfected" it over the last century... and think of other technologies we use everday without understanding them, like TV, or cell phones, or the Internet!

I hope that's reassuring.

Answer 8

Statistically, something bad will happen, somewhere, sometime, and eventually the sun will swallow up the earth, but I have good news, the human race will be extinct by then. Go live and stop worrying. Walking across the street is just as dangerous.

Answer 9

I am afraid, too. And I get myself all worked up and nothing happens. If you are of legal drinking age, don't drink before boarding thinking it will calm your nerves, it makes it worse. You have to remember that the pilot and flight attendants have flown thousands upon thousands of miles and they are still alive and well and loving their jobs (well, except for United Airline flight attendants, they're not so nice). Bring along a good book to read, watch the in-flight movie if one is offered, keep yourself busy and it will keep your mind from straying to negative thoughts.

Answer 10

The most dangerous part of flying is the cab ride to the airport.