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, 1 reply)

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)