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Yeah, you should have more concern over human error and Boeing than this. But, boy, the more I have flown and the older I am, the more I get anxious during turb
by eggy 2y ago
Yeah, you should have more concern over human error and Boeing than this. But, boy, the more I have flown and the older I am, the more I get anxious during turbulence when I fly.
- stouset 2y agoWhen was the last time a commercial airliner crashed due to turbulence?
- rootusrootus 2y agoBest I can tell, 1966. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911
- stouset 2y agoThen I think we can safely worry about other things than turbulence :)
- septic-liqueur 2y agoBut you never know... You might be the first one :-)
- dmux 2y ago>The Boeing 707 jetliner involved disintegrated mid-air I'm guessing their use of "disintegrated" there is supposed to be taken literally as dis-integrated, but upon first read, I took it for its more colloquial meaning (which to me is closer to pulverized, turn to dust, dissolve etc).
- kelnos 2y agoOh man: > Several booked passengers cancelled their tickets at the last moment to see a ninja demonstration. These passengers, Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Ken Adam, Lewis Gilbert, and Freddie Young, were in Japan scouting locations for the fifth James Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967). The James Bond franchise would likely have been quite a bit different had Broccoli died in 1966. Crazy to think he and his colleagues cheated death because they wanted to play tourist a little bit longer than originally scheduled.
- FabHK 2y agoI relax when it's turbulent. The airframe can handle it [1], and at least the pilots are awake. [1] There's a speed limit for turbulence penetration, chosen such that the wings will stall, rather than over-stress the airframe.
- eggy 2y agoThank you! That's definitely a great way to look at it. Complacency and habit breed accidents. Although not the the Boeing/mechanical issues. Still worried about the ghost in the machine or gremlins!