Creepy...

by **blackozz** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:38 pm

Well.... things have a habit of happening in 3's. Next one should be within a day or so.

by **Hash** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:47 pm

I thought about flying because i thought it was safer now then before, but now i know airplane mechanics are slacking in their maintenance. Forget about it now.

by **Evan** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:05 pm

Originally posted by Monstrous
I thought about flying because i thought it was safer now then before, but now i know airplane mechanics are slacking in their maintenance. Forget about it now.

You are less likely to crash in an airplane than you are to be in a crash in a car.

by **SavageParrot** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:54 am

They should throw the book at some of those airline executives. If those cheap bastards spent the proper amount of money on maintenance ths wouldn't be happening. It's time they shut down those budget airlines on safety grounds...

by **cavalierlwt** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:59 am

Different standards in different countries though. I was in Egypt a few years back, and actually had a short flight on a Russian knockoff passenger jet. I've never been more nervous flying in my whole life, by a wide, wide margin. Whole friggin thing just looked badly put together and patched up. It just looked like it was manufactured by people who didn't give a sh*t.

by **SavageParrot** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:13 am

The legendary Aeroflot standards...

by **Cowgomoo** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:58 am

I recently went to disney world for summer break with my girlfriend, and we had a layover in ft lauderdale, florida. while boarding the plane, they were calling out zones. The plane had 4 zones, they only called 1-2, and then made a final boarding call else we would lose our seats...i was seated in zone 3. anyhow, thats beside the point, i made it on, so all was well.

All except, our seats had been givin away to people who couldnt understand english...problem is, they did. Our plane had landed at the wrong gate, so they got it confused with the one they were supposed to be on, which was the next flight to arrive at that gate. Delta scanned them on and let them fly, not knowing this. After asking the flight attendent about the situation, she walked to them and began speaking to them. None of the three turned to even acknowledge her existance.

She then lets us know she's going to get someone to interprate it to them so they could understand they are on the wrong plane. After about a 5 minute delay, she came back on and asked us if we wanted to sit together. of course, putting us on the spot, my girlfriend panicked and said 'no', if she said 'yes' we would of delayed this 45 minute flight and caused its passangers to hate us.

I spoke out and said 'yes, we payed for those seats to sit together.' my mother, knowing id end up getting us thrown off the plane just said "shes his boyfriend" and she replied with 'oh, then its no problem to be apart for 45 minutes' and made us sit on different parts of the plane. i bit my tongue when my mom gave me the evil eye, because she knew id say something along the lines of 'get this damn terrorist off the plane' and just sat there.

since delta seems to -always- have the air conditioner broken, the flight attendent then asked us to reach up and turn on the air conditioners, which those 3 people who couldnt understand/acknowledge us complied and reached up and twisted the knobs.

Thankfully nothing happened, but what good is coming from all these TSA people? (thousand standing agents)

by **cavalierlwt** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:02 am

Even the flight attendants sucked. Normally when a flght attendant pours coffee or tea, they do it while holding the cup over the aisle, not the passengers. The guy next to me asked for tea, and this psycho woman holds the cup about a foot over my head while she pours tea from a carafe full of boiling hot tea. If we had hit a bit of turbulence at that moment I would spent the next year of my ife in a burn ward.
Then again there's nothing like hearing 'Next Stop: Saddam International Airport' to really wake you up!

by **Tommy Boy** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:03 am

Originally posted by Evan
You are less likely to crash in an airplane than you are to be in a crash in a car.

I agree...you are much more likely to get smoked by a car crossing the road than you are to buy the farm in a plane crash.

by **=ender=** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:36 am

Not only is it statistically safer to fly than it is simply to drive to work, but (again statistically speaking) the mechanic working on your car is more likely to give you bad worksmanship that could result in catastrophic failure than the ones working on the plane you could be in.

Airplane accidents always seem so much worse because of the sheer numbers of casualties involved (1 average car accident may have 4 or 5 people involved... 1 average airline accident is bound to have over 100 on average) and the amount of devastation that can result from a plane hitting the ground.

Also, car accidents (not to discuss them lightly) are a dime a dozen. Hundreds if not thousands of them occur every single day (fatal or not); planes, on the other hand, don't have hundred or thousands of accidents per day. So, whenever one doesn't make it, you WILL hear about it.

Lastly, in these post 9/11 days, it's hard for some people NOT to think that any accident might be a result of terrorist activity, which puts us as a civilized people more on edge than ever before. Yeah, it's scary. Planes aren't supposed to fall out of the sky. But just remember that driving to work every day is just about the single most dangerous thing you could ever do.

by **cavalierlwt** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:03 am

True, but no car accidents involve you falling thousands of feet for 10-15 minutes, the whole time screaming and crying!

by **=ender=** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:28 am

Just imagine the flying cars of the future and the types of "everyday" accidents we'll have then!

by **cavalierlwt** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:00 am

that's a total nightmare. Unless the technology for flying cars coincides with super computer technology that does *all* the flying for you, then it will be a nightmare.

by **=ender=** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:04 pm

And then just wait... code crackers will make viruses and worms that will infest the Uber Computers of future flying cars... nightmare, indeed!

by **cavalierlwt** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:13 pm

LOL, don't ruin my dream of flying cars!!!

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