Missing Air France plane
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- GeorgesII
A flight directed to Paris lost contact over the Atlantic, so far not much is being said... I trully hope there are some survivors.
- digdre0
they escaped from this planet
- digdre0
oh, the bermuda is not there, is it?
I hope some survided t
- Bluejam0
Lost?
- JerseyRaindog0
Not looking good. They would have been out of fuel by now apparently.
- dMullins0
Damn. That really sucks. This is why I'm demanding Xanax next time I have to take a flight, international or domestic. If I die, I want to go out not knowing.
- invo0
The older I get, the more afraid of flying I become.
We went to the moon 40 years ago god damnit - we should have this flying shit under control by now. =)
- toe_knee0
Thats aweful... terrifying. I'm on 8 flights in the next two weeks.... :-(
- kult0
Same boat as invo.
I've flown what, 30-40 times in my life, and each time it actually gets worse, not better. I'm not terrified of flying, but I really, really hate it, and it still makes me pretty nervous.
- benfal990
i hate to fly too.
- StyIepIus0
I hope they find survivors also.
I hope also that this thread doesn't get randomly deleted by a 7-year-old-minded individual
- GeorgesII0
the cynicism of some posters makes me wonder, what still shock us/you,
215 peoples probably died today and some are comparing it to a tv serie...,
seriously this isn't to pick up a fight, but please come back to reality.- Yah, some people here should have been on that plane.dMullins
- nothing shocks meflashbender
- is it b/c nothing really awful, like losing a loved one, has never happened to you personally?monkeyshine
- 23kon0
The BBC site reports "This is the first major incident in Brazilian air space since a Tam flight crashed in Sao Paulo in ........ (then you expect this to be a date from further in the past) ...... July 2007 killing 199 people.
Two major crashes in two years, not very good stats.
That tells me "dont fly in/out of brazil"Amicus is right, flying is a whole lot safer than driving.
As humans, flying is something we definitely arent "meant" to do (leave it to the birds) so it is quite surprising there are so few incidents considering the amount of planes that are in the air each and every day.Bundling as many people as possible paying budget fares into a flying tin can is definitely wrong. Safety needs to be looked at over profits.
- communistflashbender
- it's a AIR FRANCE plane, not a AIR BRAZILIAN, this kind of shit happens everywhere in the world, don't be such a xenophobic please!chrisRG
- its in brazilian airspace though - i believe its one of the busiest airspaces in the world.23kon
- so the odds of it hapening here are the highest, no?23kon
- mikotondria30
Since this thread was started however, there have been thousands of safe landings and take offs, all over the world.
Put your hand out of your car window when you are travelling at 60 mph - how solid does that air feel ? Now multiply that by ten - air is hard at that speed - problems and incidents like this are so so rare - you'd have to be flying constantly for hundreds of thousands of years to be statistically involved in an airplane crash, and even then you'd most likely survive... Enjoy flying for the wonder of the modern age that it is, there are far more dangerous things you do every day.- air isn't the only thing that gets hard at that speedflashbender
- epikore0
When I go on a plane, i'm amazed with the technology of flying.
- Really? I'm freaked out by how thin the airplane walls are.TheBlueOne
- I'm still afraid to fly as wellepikore
- epikore0
I hope the passengers are alright but it's highly doubtful. =(
- nicole_marie0
This is so sad. I feel so bad for their families I can't imagine just not knowing exactly what happened, and they may not ever really know.
I still hate flying, I don't think I will ever become completely comfortable with it.
- marychain0
Flying is EXTREMELY safe.
but nothing can be 100%...there are AWAYS going to be accidents
Thoughts go out to the families...this is going to be hell for them