[Alvin]

The wife had been considering whether to go to Florida to see the kids or not as she is not a happy flyer.

and was undecided for weeks.

So tuesday she finally books.

Yesterday the tragic crash.

just amazed at the timing.

Alvin

[Andy Trish]

I will say I fly to Florida often and the aircraft are much better than the low budget airline that crashed in Madrid. I have flown with the budget airlines to Sanford (Orlando) and they are very good. top her up in duty free and she'll be fine.

hundreds of thousands of people fly every day and you very rarely hear of an accident.

[Alvin]

I agree Andy, problem is that the survivability when an aircraft crashes is so low.

She always fly's BA about 3 times a year ,and I have a friend that is the actual guy who signs the aircraft as fit to fly at Gatwick and he has reassured her on many occasions.

But I suppose logic goes out the window with flying.

Man has learnt to do many things ,but flying ain't one of them.

Alvin

[Mooij603]

Accidents happen with all aircrafts, I believe its often due to human failures..

[Andy Trish]

Originally Posted by Mooij603

Accidents happen with all aircrafts, I believe its often due to human failures..

Accidents are a part of life, no-one can forsee them so why worry?

I flew the day of the London bombings and was happy I was on an aircraft rather than a bus or train.

[Beneddie1112]

1 to 200 to die in a road crash,

1 to 65,000 to die in a railway accident,

1 to 7,600,000 to die in an aircraft incident,

Also bear in mind, the majority of air lines are small aircrafts like little Cessna's , so the chances of it happening on a commerical aircraft are even lower

Cheers,
Ben

[fee]

you can give me figures and logic till its coming out of my ears......you wont EVER catch me on a plane..........

[Indizine]

everyone thought most good planes were safe til Concorde joined the rest of them as being just as vulnerable, as its not always down to the plane itself or human/pilot, it can be external factors.

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Indizine

everyone thought most good planes were safe til Concorde joined the rest of them as being just as vulnerable, .

Concorde crashed because of a million to one chance,that was in part human error.

a small piece of metal fell off another aircraft and concorde ran over this making its tyre explode,bits of rubber pierced the fuel tanks.

So I expect there is much more vigelance in runway inspection since that event.

Alvin

[Indizine]

but no one cleans up a runway after each and every take off, many queue and follow, but whether Concorde had a different runway cleaning routine I dont know.