Hear people die (Western Airlines Flight 2605)

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[–]anescient[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

If you want to be afraid of airliners, it's simple: watch every last air disaster video this guy's made. If you're like me, you have substantially underestimated the total number of accidents.

[–]HopeThatHalps 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I binged on that stuff about ten years ago, it only faded from my mind enough to fly a few years ago. People who happily fly, who say you're more likely to die in a car accident just don't get it. IMO, fear of flying is a very rational fear.

[–]Asenath 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In car accidents you don't have as much time to be utterly freaking terrified before you die. I've been in a few. It's just "Oh shit!" crash. I'd much rather die that way than in a plane full of people screaming bloody murder as it plummets into the ground.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

True, although supposing a plane crash takes a whole sixty seconds, that's a terrible sixty seconds that probably feels like an hour, but it's a very short amount of time in the grand scheme of things.