Jan 18 2009
Do Recent Plane Accidents Affect Your Feelings About Flying?
I’m sure everyone’s heard by now about flight 1549, but if you haven’t, the flight took off from LaGuardia airport in New York and crashed into the Hudson River a mere few moment later. The plane was headed to North Carolina, and it appears that a collision with a flock of birds caused the crash. The U.S. Airways pilots warned the passengers to prepare for impact because they were going to crash. Witnesses who saw the crash landing said it looked like the pilot was gently guiding the plane into the water.
Amazingly, all 155 people on board - 150 passengers, 3 flight attendants, and two pilots - survived. Many people were able to walk out onto the wings of the plane and were picked up by boats and ferries and carried to safety. However, a few people had to be rescued from the water.
Injuries were minor in natures with about half of the people on the plane being taken to hospitals for bruises, hypothermia, and other minor injuries. It is reported that the most serious injury was an individual who suffered two broken legs in the crash.
I don’t know if I’m mentioned it on this blog or not, but I am scared to fly. I’ve flown on a couple of planes in my lifetime, but each time I am so anxious. Now, however, with the recent plan crashes and accidents, I am even more afraid to fly.
How do the recent plane accidents affect your feelings about flying, if at all? Does the seemingly rigorous training flight attendants have to go through in emergencies provide you with any comfort?
I’m interested in knowing your thoughts on the matter. Please tell me what you think in the comment section below.
Source:
Yahoo News: All 155 Safe After Pilot Ditches Jet in NYC River
I’ve never been too worried about flying; what tends to go wrong with the airlines isn’t usually my kind of flight, nor something I’m particularly worried about.
Then again, it’s always been like that. I’m the kind of person who flew regularly even post-9/11, grumbled about the increased security, and would cheerfully sit at the terminal reading John Nance (the master of What Can Go Wrong in an Airplane does) while waiting for my flight to board and griping about the woeful lack of turbulence on the inbound flight. Even my parents wondered how I did it. (Then again, being in my early teens probably helped).