v. scary

[Diestl]

I remember once seeing a China Airways flight 666 on Friday the 13th in Changi airport, Singapore. No way you would have paid me to be on that flight!

Why? Does the naming of a plane or date cause a plane to crash?

[sasguru]

Have been on something very similar many years ago on a "Dan Dare" (remember them?) flight to Paris - landing in a storm with gusting winds.
Screaming people, lockers open, plane seemingly flung about like a toy.
Luckily in those days (early 90s) you could smoke, usually at the back.
I think I got through a whole pack during the seemingly interminable landing, one hand gripping the seat like a vice.

[Churchill]

Why? Does the naming of a plane or date cause a plane to crash?

Whoever you are, your sockpuppet is crap.

[sasguru]

Why? Does the naming of a plane or date cause a plane to crash?

The voice of reason.

[wurzel]

Have been on something very similar many years ago on a "Dan Dare" (remember them?) flight to Paris

Yeah, flew back fom Naples with them once and had to make an unscheduled landing in lyon because the plane was nearly out of fuel from flying into a strong headwind.

[Diestl]

Whoever you are, your sockpuppet is crap.

Im real. No sockpuppet.

[Churchill]

Yeah, flew back fom Naples with them once and had to make an unscheduled landing in lyon because the plane was nearly out of fuel from carrying too many fat bastards.

FTFY!

[hyperD]

A friend and I were out in the states flying a Cessna 152 around Florida at the time hurricane Opal was forming. A bit annoying as we were going to spend a few days in Key West but the hurricane front prevented us. It was pretty scary going anywhere near the hurricane - even 20 miles away the plane was being thrown around like a baby in a tumble drier - the video I took looks pretty impressive.

We eventually got a commercial back to the UK on the day the hurricane arrived in St Petersburg - in all the thunder, gusts and lightning the plane was being heavily buffeted causing a few screams in the cabin but we were so used to being thrown around in that little C152 that it didn't bother us.

However, I still don't like turbulence myself - find it pretty uncomfortable, especially when other people are panicking around me.

Don't mind it when I'm flying myself, although once when I was trying to fly on instruments I had to turn back because I couldn't use the nav aids because the turbulence was so bad.

[Gonzo]

Just got of the scariest flight I've ever been on in my whole life. Really violent turbulence with people screaming - at one point there was a bang and the whole plane just seemed to fall out the sky with stuff spilling out the overhead lockers. Thought that was curtains back there for a while. Apparently, someone told me just now to put my mind at rest, a plane has never crashed as a result of turbulance. Is that right? It felt to me like the wings could have sheared off at any moment.

There was a bloke that used to drink at my old local that was an aircraft maintenance engineer.

He used to tell me that modern aircraft will survive flying through adverse weather conditions longer than the passengers will.

He added that avoiding third world airlines was the best way to minimize the risks of flying.

[Clippy]

There was a bloke that used to drink at my old local that was an aircraft maintenance engineer.

He used to tell me that modern aircraft will survive flying through adverse weather conditions longer than the passengers will.

He added that avoiding third world airlines was the best way to minimize the risks of flying.

No more RyanAir flights for me then!