Germanwings disasater

[Deleted member 995608]

I'm scared crapless to fly. I flew between Texas and Ca when I was quite young a couple times every year, but now I feel different.

When cars collide, it typically happens so fast, there's not much time to think. The thought of a 5-10 minute time frame to think about what's going to happen as the plane nose dives is what scares me.

 

[AH64ID]

I think the 5-10 minutes may be agonizing, but death on impact would be better than not knowing the collision was going to happen and slowly dying trapped in the wreckage.

Neither way sounds great.

 

[BIGNASTY]

JH

Just like anything else in life, I didn't think that leaving the USA was in our future awhile back, Penny got the idea she wanted to see some of the world and convinced me that the chance of this happening to your particular flight has pretty favorable odds that IT WONT HAPPEN TO YOU.

It can happen tonight when you step out of the shower that you slip hit your head and its OVER!! cant live your life in fear and stay in Three Rivers, I guess you can but is that what you want to do? Driving isn't much better odds. I remember some of the Fog that covered the central valley it don't take much to stack up a couple of hundred cars with yours in the center of it all.

Life is a Chance

 

[Deleted member 995608]

I here ya guys. I'm a paid call firefighter/AEMT for the county county so I've seen my fair share of nasty TA's.

Don't what really happened in my early teens. All the sudden, I was scared to fly and I haven't flown since except for a 2.5 hour ride in a 4 seat private plane in 2004. A buddy of mine owns his own plane and invited me to fly to another airstrip to re-fuel.

Our oldest daughter leaves for college in August. I was wanting to take an Alaska trip as a family before she left but the wind has left my sail for now and we don't have the business coverage to be on the road for 3-4 weeks this summer.

 

[BIGNASTY]

JH

My fear wasn't in the flying, it was all the terrorists that are striking ANY PLACE in the world. Even though we went to 1 pretty out of the way place and two that are worth a shot for the terrorist group, I just kept my eyes open and hoped for the best.

Next year the wife & her sister have been talking about Germany and Oktoberfest, cant say that I wouldn't like to go again. But when I went back in the Mid 70's the threat was a little different than what it is now. We will end up going if that's what they want, again its just keeping aware of what going on around you.

When we were in the Airports on this last trip, I had the hee bee Gee Bee's lots of people and when nervous they all look suspicious to me.

 

[RustyJC]

My wife and I were in the UK during the height of the IRA bombings. It was a little unnerving walking through Heathrow with security personnel with weapons slung over their shoulder at every corner, but it turned out all right. You just have to go with the flow.

Rusty

 

[Ram4Sam]

I'm scared crapless to fly. I flew between Texas and Ca when I was quite young a couple times every year, but now I feel different.

When cars collide, it typically happens so fast, there's not much time to think. The thought of a 5-10 minute time frame to think about what's going to happen as the plane nose dives is what scares me.

Actually, according to an article I read earlier, the nutjob engaged the landing sequence in the auto pilot so it was a slow decent. The investigators said the passengers probably weren't aware of anything until the last seconds.....

From the article....

"- The plane dropped gradually from around 10-12,000 metres to 2,000 slowly enough, Robin said, that passengers would have been unaware anything was wrong.

"I think the victims were only aware at the very last moment. The screams are heard only in the last instants before the impact,"

Sam