Do you consider air travel "safe" any more due to what is happening?

[War5oldier]

Plane crashes happen (just like the one in South Korea during the end of last year) including a recent one in the USA, but does that sour or dampen the mood of even traveling anywhere since that builds up fear and exacerbates aerophobia for some.

Let's be real, there is no "perfectly safe" way to travel since you can still end up in accidents from a train, car, truck, plane, boat, ship, bicycle, motorbike, you name it. So the only thing everyone can do is pray and hope it won't happen to you next.

You don't have a crystal ball dictating what will happen upon driving a car, hoping on public transport. It's R&G since you don't know if you will make it or not since "bad" things or unexpected events can happen out of nowhere.

[Vox]

Just don't get on a Boeing

[Pocahawtness]

Death by plane is surely a terrible thing, but really, they are very safe. A few crashes changes nothing.

[76561199829811770]

Ever since air travel became affordable to the lower class, it became unsafe.

[the vampire of time and memory]

I've always found air travel scary, even before the recent trend of self immolating russian packages

[salamander]

it is still the safest way to travel. but i would be lying if i said that all of the recent accidents have not made me anxious. i am not looking forward to the next time i must get on a plane.

[BR B-263-54]

Imagine all the flights currently taking place across the planet right now.

It's true to say that things go wrong very rarely.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Every time you get in your car you are more likely to have an accident then getting on a plane. But if there is an accident it's more likely you will walk away from a car crash.

[Sugarcube Battery]

I'm still more terrified of being in a car.

But I'm scared than I've ever been to be on a plane.

[76561198356019466]

I refuse to fly again until they stop serving fish.

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A hilarious scene from Airplane.

[eram]

Originally posted by poop head:

Ever since air travel became affordable to the lower class, it became unsafe.

nonsense, how many people do you think fly every day? and how many plane crashes every day?

[Siluva]

Originally posted by Vox:

Just don't get on a Boeing

[eram]

my next flight is with KLM i call them kill em all airlines, its actually a good 1

[Dom]

It's the safest form of transportation.

Whenever you get on the plane, you have to remember that you don't stress that much when you get to a train or a car. Or just walk. Any other transportation method is more dangerous than flying, statistically speaking.

There is no such thing as perfect safety/security. No matter how you look at the life.
How do you know you won't get a heart attack in the next hour? You don't. You only know that it's unlikely, and that's all. Just like getting into an airplane accident.

Understanding the overall realities of life will help tackle aerophobia.
Risks are managed and minimized, not eliminated.

[The Commendatore]

I share Zak Bagans' fear as he so eloquently put it in the book I Am Haunted Living Life Through the Dead:

"Every time I fly I need to pee. A lot. And I get scared I get sucked out of the airplane lavatory with my wiener hanging out. But I have not, and will never take, a dump in an airplane. "

[Adversary]

I'm probably on the No Fly List, so it doesn't matter whether or not I was bothered by the competency crisis making air travel less safe than it already wasn't. There aren't really any countries I want to visit anymore anyways. At least at the moment.

Ask me again when someone has the chutzpah to put up with me for the remainder of their or my existence.