which would scare you most when flying?

[leftofthedial]

Poll question: which would scare you most when flying?

[Midlodemocrat]

1. If they ran out of alcohol en route.

[leftofthedial]

4. that would be a disaster

the horror! the horror!

[guinivere]

11. That, and botulism in the ice. nt

[leftofthedial]

40. botulism makes me want to puke!

[glitch]

2. Landings and take-off. Also when the pilot does two things at once,

like turning the plane while changing altitude. Oh, and turbulence.
And phlebitis.

[leftofthedial]

41. taking off is pretty straightforward

but landing with phlebitis while the pilot is doing a crossword puzzle is horrific!

[glitch]

56. I am laughing and shuddering at the same time! nt

[DS1]

3. 45 degree angle downwards

like most crashes. Nope, don't wanna do it.

[leftofthedial]

57. so you're cool right through 44 degrees?

I have only been frightened once in a commercial plane and that was a very loud thump followed immediately by a rapid loss of 20,000 feet of altitude and an incredibly bumpy flight at an altitude I've only ever really seen during final approach.

Then we got a message from the pilot that the plane had an unnamed mechanical malfunction, that there was no danger and that we would be landing in Detroit (this was a New York to Denver flight).

We must have been at 45 degrees at some point.

[trof]

5. A MOFOING SNAKE ON A PLANE!

;-)

[catzies]

10. Yeah, cause there's not a GOT-DAMN thing you can do about it.

Heh. ;)

[annabanana]

16. heheeheeheeheehee. . . . . n/t

[leftofthedial]

43. SSSSS SSSSSSSS SSSSSS SSSSSSS SSSS SSSSSS

slither

[wakeme2008]

6. Looking up and seeing green and down blue..

is very good and a fun thing to do.... :)

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. Like this?

Tex Johnson's famous Barrel-Roll when test flying the Boeing 707

[wakeme2008]

33. LOL like that but mine was a Cessna 150

:)

[leftofthedial]

44. at least you can still tell what's up

and what's down . . .

[951-Riverside]

7. Crashing, Suicidal Pilot & Being hand raped by the TSA guy

[Pavulon]

28. Don't fly egypt air...

Pilot cut throttles and put the airplane in unrecoverable dive. Killed all aboard.

[meisje]

8. A Velociraptor on a plane would not be good for business!

[leftofthedial]

13. at least not repeat business

[petronius]

9. "We've reached cruising altitude - you may now use your cellphones"

is my most-feared PA announcement...

[misternormal]

12. I don't fly... n/t

[TheWraith]

14. I would have voted for snakes on a plane...

But the option wasn't available, so I chose leg room in coach.

[Itchinjim]

15. Being well over six feet tall,

The leg room in coach is sheer torture, unless I am lucky enough to get a bulkhead seat

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. My scariest plane ride

THe lady next to me opened up a huge Tupperware (tm) container containing what appeared to be somekind of pickled cauliflower... and began eating...

[AlCzervik]

18. When we were coming back from London my husband and daughter

breeze right through security--not me, oh no, full pat down in full public view--i was a little pissed off.

[TygrBright]

20. None of the Above

On long flights my biggest worry is serious, airborne-transmissible disease. Long flights involve several recycles of cabin air.

nervously,
Bright

[leftofthedial]

21. so that's a vote for bird flu

or ebola . . . ?

[TygrBright]

22. Those don't involve airborne transmission to humans... yet...

So at the moment I'm more concerned with other strains of flu and various airborne bacterial infections. I have athsma and any respiratory infection can be a serious matter. But once bird flu crosses the human transmission barrier, it will probably zip to the top of the worry list.

cautiously,
Bright

[leftofthedial]

26. I know what you mean.

plus the air is extremely dry, which makes your mucosa more susceptible to viral uptake.

of course, all us members of the mile high club have other disease worries . . . LOL!

[TygrBright]

30. heh. no s**t... checked the hantavirus reports lately? n/t

[etherealtruth]

23. I have real concerns r/t "liquored-up" pilots (n/t)

[leftofthedial]

27. why shouldn't they have some fun too?

[SmokingJacket]

24. Sick people breathing that recirculated air.

Yaugh!

Also, improperly de-iced wings.

[DrDebug]

25. Mobile phones

And they are going to be implemented. Imagine flying 10 hours next to a person who keeps on calling his friends to tell the same story over and over again. Flying is going to be that way soon.

[Pavulon]

29. Thunderstorms

In reality most major air crashes involve weather or pilot error. Or both..

[Donald Ian Rankin]

31. You left off

"Getting on the wrong plane by mistake and ending up on a different continent to my luggage".

So far I haven't done that, but I live in constant dread of doing so whenever I travel by air.

[sleepyhead]

32. Bankruptcy - it happened to me!

I was flying on Continental in the early 90s when they were having financial problems and trying to conserve on gas. They had apparently miscalculated the headwinds or something and the plane ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere! We landed suddenly in a tiny little airport in the middle of some cornfields and had to wait for a refueling truck to come with enough gas to get us the rest of the way. I am a nervous flier anyway (severe claustrophobia) and was a total wreck by the time I got home. Haven't flown since.

[leftofthedial]

34. I'm sure it was scary for you

but that is hysterical.

[sleepyhead]

36. The guy sitting in front of me thought it was great.

He was a standup comedian on his way to a gig. He turned around and said, "I just got my first 10 minutes of material!" For some reason that made me feel better.

[Left Is Write]

35. I don't need extras.

Flying alone is enough to send me into panic attacks.

The THOUGHT of flying is enough to send me into panic attacks.

[leftofthedial]

38. DON'T PANIC!

this is just a DU thread!

Do you have your towel?

[Left Is Write]

45. Towel?

[leftofthedial]

48. two Hitchhiker's Guide references . . .

don't panic and the towel . . .

[Left Is Write]

49. I haven't read it, so the references were lost on me.

:)

[leftofthedial]

52. sorry to be such a nerd

:-)


but as a space-age housewife, you really should check it out.

[0007]

37. Argh!! I hate flying with a passion!

[leftofthedial]

39. then fly without one

:-|

[medeak]

42. had stewardess sit down next to me and say:

"am so nervous...we don't have enough fuel to land"...

gave her a magazine to read and said "it's ok honey"

have one of those friendly faces. way too much information!

[Freedom_Aflaim]

50. You always have enough fuel to land

:)

The question is whether it will be at an airport

[leftofthedial]

51. good point

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. TURBULENCE! Nothing freaks me more than turbulence!

:hi:

[DanCa]

47. Sitting in back of crying kids. (nt)

[RB TexLa]

53. None of the above, I don't pay attention to others on or around the plane

[Kerrytravelers]

54. I'd be terrified if I saw an elected rethuglian on board.

Will I be able to sit through an entire flight without completely losing it and getting arrested upon destination?

:dilemma:

[DemoTex]

55. YOU! YOU! YOU!

Kick-ass flight attendants during an emergency evacuation. Prepare to get your feelings hurt, your ass kicked, and your precious belongings left behind, in a true emergency evacuation. But when you get out of that flaming hulk, prepare to hug and kiss the first professional flight attendant that comes down that slide after the last passenger and last pilot has his/her precious butt on the ground. Yes, we in the cockpit count on the F/As too. Don't ever assume that they are there to "serve" you.

[julialnyc]

58. I hate flying!

Mechanical failure is my biggest fear, but just about every scenario runs through my mind. I need to work on my active imagination being a very bad combination with flying.