I've flown in an Antonov-24 and survived*
You're unlikely to survive an aircraft crash but they're very very rare.


*Damn thing was held together with tape, snot and hope.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 12:08, 2 replies)

i've flown air cuba
the aeroplane was twice as old as I was, and all the emergency instructions were in Russian
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 12:47, closed)

The safety of modern air travel is a spectacular achievement, considering the inherent madness of being fired at nearly the speed of sound 5 miles up into the sky in an aluminium tube.
But it's not quite as safe as some of the rhetoric that is often employed to reassure people. If you look at the comparison table here, per km travelled flying really is the safest way to go. But that's really because planes go so fast and so far. Per hour, it doesn't look so good, and per journey even worse.

So contrary to the popular saying, you are actually about 3 times more likely to die in an plane crash than you are on your drive to the airport.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 13:01, closed)

I agree with you re the'inherent madness' thing
But (and much like that of my ex-wife, this is a really BIG but) it's not 1/1000,000th as dangerous as she thinks it is. You're very, very unlikely to be in an air crash. Those very very few times passenger* aircraft are involved in accidents**, the media hype it to the heavens - thereby scaring the shit out of the people.


*Air incident statistics are skewed by military crashes - see also third-world plane usage.
**Germanwings wasn't an accident.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 13:17, closed)

Good point.
So if you're in a plane that's brought down by either:

1) a collision with a military or a Third World plane; or
2) a suicidal pilot

Then you should consider yourself quite unlucky and/or a statistical anomaly.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 4 Aug 2015, 14:20, closed)

I got on a flight a couple of weeks ago and the two pilots were talking to a woman at the front who was having a panic attack
reassuring her that they were both happily married men who loved their children and they promised that they wouldn't crash the plane on purpose.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 14:49, closed)

Why don't they just sedate these people?

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 14:50, closed)

Possibly...
...because that would make flying the plane inherently more difficult.
(McBollocks stop being so fucking pretentious., Tue 4 Aug 2015, 15:17, closed)

Oh FFS.
Well you're hardly going to admit to 200 passengers that you're clinically depressed, your wife has moved in with your best mate and you've got a small willy, are you?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 4 Aug 2015, 15:20, closed)

How come you know so much about me?

(Baggenfrock get fucked, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 15:24, closed)

Your Mrs has started paying me a visit as well. Sozzers.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 5 Aug 2015, 10:20, closed)