Who else is scared of airplanes?

[Nottom]

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I know someone who's survived 2 major air crashes. Most of the other people didnt.

He was running good.

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[Russ M.]

Don't go see "Snakes on a Plane".

[VoraciousReader]

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I know someone who's survived 2 major air crashes. Most of the other people didnt.

He was running bad.

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By any chance, has he been seen hanging around with this guy?

[Autocratic]

I must say that I really hate the "planes are statistically safer than cars" line. With a car, you generally have more control over the outcome, which puts me at ease a little, and you have a chance of having a crash where you don't die, which is very improbable in a plane. Plus, plane engines make crazy noises, and it leaves me to analyze whether they're normal or bad news.

[ImsaKidd]

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Don't go see "Snakes on a Plane".

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Beat me to it....

If you're scared of planes, dont go driving your car either. Cars are much more dangerous than planes. All that extra metal in the plane is overkill, the car will kill you just as easily.

[paperboyNC]

Airplanes are very safe and I've flown dozens and dozens of times. No need to be scared.

How many people do you know who died in a plane crash?

[Borodog]

I personally am not ashamed to say that I *hate* flying. I swear, if I could legally be tranquilized and wheeled on and off the plane, I'd go for it.

I hate everything about it. I hate showing up to the airport hours early so that I can shuffle in lines like cattle in a chute, take off my shoes and be frisked by some retard that couldn't get a real job, have my [censored] gone through, stuffed like sardines into a shiny tube made of tin foil and hurtled at hundreds of miles per hour miles in the sky only to be shaken like a can of paint in a mixer.

Hate, hate, hate.

But other than that I'm fine with it.

[FatLoser]

I don't know how helpful this is since I don't have a fear of flying but there are two things I can think of which should be helpful.

1) If you're out driving (or someone else is driving with you in the car) you can affect the outcome so this could be scary. In a plane you can't do anything about what happens so there is nothing to be scared of doing.

And (this is the best thing about flying compared to driving)

2) If you crash, you die. You will probably not feel anything except for the adrenaline rush of your life. Compare this to the risk of becoming a vegetable from a car crash, which I find REALLY scary.

Conclusion - flying is the sht.

As a sideeffect, if you survive a plane crash you have a problem. Nothing will probably get you excited for at least a few years since it just doesn't compare to falling 10 000 meters, hitting the ground and walking away..

[craig]

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Be sure to let us know whenever he's flying in the future so we can avoid that plane. Or, with the law of averages, should we assume his plane can never crash again?

I know, I know, just because it came up black 15 times in a row doesn't mean red is bound to hit next.

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You know why the statistician brought a bomb on a plane, right?

craig

[madnak]

Airplanes are scary. They're huge pieces of metal that don't seem like they should be able to stay in the air. And turbulence makes them bump and tilt like they're being blown around in the wind.

Reason has nothing to do with it.