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I don't have much to add to this discussion other than - please don't let incidents like this confirm your bias/fear about flying. When you sit down and really think about it, pretty much EVERYTHING is out of your control. To let that impact certain aspects of your life but not others is damaging and unnecessary.
Oh it doesn't stop me from flying, I'm going to Nicaragua later this year, but I need drugs to get through it. Drugs as in the kind that put me to sleep otherwise it's clenching the arm rest & feeling a heart attack coming on, lol. Anyway, this whole thing is tragic.
What gets me is you know after the first incident in March people were thinking "Well really, what are the odds that something would happen with this airline again?" & then, it happened. And those people who say flying is way safe? That's what every single person on every single plane crash tries to tell themselves & then it happened to them. This is why I have such a huge fear of flying. It's completely out of your control.
Odds of being in a plane crash are something like 1 in 11 million. Odds of dying in a car crash is around 1 in 100. There were 35,200 deaths related to car accidents in the US in 2012. That same year 794 people world wide died in a plane crash. 815.2 million people traveled by plane in the US in 2012, and there were no commercial plane crashes in the US that year.
Odds of being in a plane crash are something like 1 in 11 million. Odds of dying in a car crash is around 1 in 100. There were 35,200 deaths related to car accidents in the US in 2012. That same year 794 people world wide died in a plane crash. 815.2 million people traveled by plane in the US in 2012, and there were no commercial plane crashes in the US that year.
Yes, you can tell me all those stats & it still doesn't matter to me, I will still have a phobia of flying. And I'm betting there were a couple of people on that flight that also had a phobia & their phobia came true.
What gets me is you know after the first incident in March people were thinking "Well really, what are the odds that something would happen with this airline again?" & then, it happened. And those people who say flying is way safe? That's what every single person on every single plane crash tries to tell themselves & then it happened to them. This is why I have such a huge fear of flying. It's completely out of your control.
I never plan to fly again, if the trip requires flying, I just wont go on the trip
flying is very dangerous, lots of famous people in the world have died from plane accidents, because they travel all the time so the odds of a plane accident go way up
I rather take my chances traveling on the road, very few people survive jet liner accidents, when it goes down everyone on the plane gets killed.
Yes, you can tell me all those stats & it still doesn't matter to me, I will still have a phobia of flying. And I'm betting there were a couple of people on that flight that also had a phobia & their phobia came true.
Odds of being in a plane crash are something like 1 in 11 million. Odds of dying in a car crash is around 1 in 100. There were 35,200 deaths related to car accidents in the US in 2012. That same year 794 people world wide died in a plane crash. 815.2 million people traveled by plane in the US in 2012, and there were no commercial plane crashes in the US that year.
the auto accidents only seem high because almost everybody drives, so the percentages will be higher
how many people fly their own plane compared to how many people drive their own car?
the number of people that die in plane crashes is actually high in comparison , the skys are not full of planes like the roads, and the chances on suriving an auto accident are much higher than surviving a jet accident.
I think its sad that people concentrate more on the person's tweet, then they do on the person's life. I would think there was almost always a person on every Malaysian flight since March that has said the same thing. There is nothing remarkable or profound about that tweet. I would hope that there was something better in my life that people would want to share if I were to die instead of what I but on twitter.
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Originally Posted by mr bolo
I rather take my chances traveling on the road, very few people survive jet liner accidents, when it goes down everyone on the plane gets killed.
Actually, more people survive jet liner accidents then die from them. Your chances of surviving an accident are pretty good and they continue to go up as improvements are made.
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