Is it safe to fly?

[B]

Crash in India. Boeing plane.

[bart]

Crash in India. Boeing plane.

it bounced??

[daft twat]

Crash in India. Boeing plane.

One survivor?! Holy shit! Coming soon to a theater near you: Seat 11A.

[BurtReynolds]

Crash in India. Boeing plane.

One survivor?! Holy shit! Coming soon to a theater near you: Seat 11A.

Unbreakable

[E.H. Ruddock]

What’s wild is he was flying home to England. After that, how do you travel home now? On a plane? That would be a mindfuck

[dimejinky99]

What’s wild is he was flying home to England. After that, how do you travel home now? On a plane? That would be a mindfuck

Was thinking about that. Can’t even begin to imagine that much of a headfuck.

He had to climb over his brothers body to get out of that plane? Poor guy

[VinylGuy]

Seems the plane was old as fuck and nothing worked well

[96583UP]

people saying the flaps were set wrong at takeoff so couldnt get lift ... supposed to test before flight ...

[lvc]

I look at the general question like this: you're in a machine doing something your body can't do. So it's not much different than driving or riding in a train. But, if something goes wrong with the machine or the operator, you are in an inherently untenable position. So the risk isn't unusual, but the downside of failure is steep.

In all honestly, I don't fly because 1) I haven't gotten my shit together to get a real ID yet, 2) it's getting pretty expensive (plus you have to rent a car when you get to where you're going), and 3) there seems to be an increasing breakdown in the basic logistics. Extremely delayed flights, missing connections, overbooked planes. Not looking to pay a few hundred dollars to feel like livestock in a time warp.

I think I've enetered full economic downturn thinking. Limit travel to a day's drive. Eat less meat. Drive broken cars. The era of superabundance that the airline industry is so emblematic of is over.

[96583UP]

i was on a flight this week on a small plane that had a really rough landing

hit on the front tire real hard rather than a gradual let down

was like BOOM we landed

def made me want to avoid small planes again in the future

4 seats across

amazing those tiny airplane tires are what a plane lands on

[daft twat]

So we don’t have to take our shoes off anymore?

[Peeps]

So we don’t have to take our shoes off anymore?

only when entering a japanese home

[darth_vedder]

Off topic, but I guess I can't fly because I'm lazy and haven't gotten a RealID. Guess I should put that on my todo list soon.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Off topic, but I guess I can't fly because I'm lazy and haven't gotten a RealID. Guess I should put that on my todo list soon.

You still can, you just apparently have to go through extra steps at security when you arrive so it takes way longer

[LoathedVermin72]

Off topic, but I guess I can't fly because I'm lazy and haven't gotten a RealID. Guess I should put that on my todo list soon.

Wait, you don't have a driver's license?

[doug rr]

passport it fine as well...its all so stupid..delayed for years and kicks in when we now don't have to take off our shoes...stay home

[daft twat]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tu ... rcna222146

Short of crashing, this is my nightmare. I feel like real noticeable turbulence was rare not that long ago and now with climate change it’s becoming the norm. Ugh!