So we’re set to fly to Orlando in two weeks. I’m not a good flyer. That’s not to say I get on a plane and freak or need sedated or that you’d even know I don’t like it. But I don’t.
When a flight gets close, it’s always in the back of my mind and I start noticing more and more flight-related things. Usually bad things.
Just last week I read an article that mentioned something along the lines of 2007 & 2008 being fatality free for the commercial airlines…it was the first time in the history of American commercial aviation that that’s happened. Never before has no one died on a US commercial airline for two consecutive years. (yeah, that’s reassuring) In fact, only 4 years since the 50′s have gone fatality-free.
I mentioned it to a few people (including my wife and mother) along with my normal close-to-flight paranoia comment of “We’re overdue for one.”
No shit when that plane went down today, both my mother and my wife mentioned how creepy it was that I just brought that up.
Of course, it’s not really creepy at all – it’s a coincidence.
The thing is, there were no fatalities…
…we’re still overdue.
I came home from work to Beth looking at the photos on my blog. She asked, “What airline are we flying?”
For the record, I love traveling, including the bullshit at the airport, but I too wonder about bad things. I’m sure most people do.
Here’s an article you may find interesting.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1872154,00.html?imw=Y
It speaks to how to survive a plane crash. It also points out that the survival rate for any plane incident that could be categorized as accident is actually 95.7%. And that even for the serious plane crashes, the survival rate is 76.6%.
Not quite as dire as it generally seems.