I've spent a long time telling the airplane-phobic that no cruising-level trans-Atlantic flight has ever just suddenly crashed, but that apparently has now changed with Air France's now-missing flight from Rio to Paris.
I've spent a long time telling the airplane-phobic that no cruising-level trans-Atlantic flight has ever just suddenly crashed, but that apparently has now changed with Air France's now-missing flight from Rio to Paris.
Yeah, I always told myself that my sweaty hands were only excusable during/+15 minutes after take-off and during descent...Le Monde is reporting it's likely the plane was struck by lightning...
Aliens got it! How exciting.
The statistical reality that your cab ride to the airport is more dangerous than your flight is of no comfort. Death by plane crash sucks.
I agree and think the key to this is that when your cab gets run over by some coked-out club-boy's Hummer you never really see it coming; when your plane's crashing it takes a few seconds and you fully and consciously KNOW what's about to happen. *shiver*
Hopefully one experiences a strong rush of adrenaline in these moments.
Where's the Monday funnies?
nuh uh, cabs are protected by magic. I know this because Tom Scocca said so and because once my cab driver t-boned another cab while trying to make an illegal u-turn and I flew face first into the divider thing and smashed up one side of my face but I didn't die.
Take this story for what it's worth. . .a couple weeks ago, I was at O'Hare, to board a flight to Buffalo. A couple of well-dressed men were seated next to me. They were talking about the Colgin Air crash near Buffalo earlier this year.
One of the men claimed a good friend was a photographer who happened to be close to the crash site, and got to the scene before the emergency crews. What he saw, they said, gives him nightmares, when he can sleep.
Although the plane did a steep dive straight into a neighborhood, took out a house at probably 3-400 mph, broke apart and burned, this witness, said the man at O'Hare, claimed that a number of people were not dead yet. He heard "moaning" coming from the wreckage. Conceivably this could have been the occupants of the house.
I've worked on plane crash cases and seen the pictures. They aren't pretty. I've heard cockpit voice recorders during the period when the crew figured out what was about to happened. You don't forget it. Seconds seem like years.
Nope. Not fun.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHH!
That's pretty fucking horrifying.