WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF FLYING
Added on: 1st Apr 2016
AS HUMANS, WE TEND TO REMEMBER THE
CATASTROPHES AND FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE,
SO OUR MEMORIES ARE VERY BIASED
CONSIDER THAT MOST ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
DURING TAKE-OFF AND LANDING. AND THE VAST
MAJORITY OF THOSE ACCIDENTS ARE ANYTHING
BUT FATAL
FURTHERMORE, CONSIDER THAT PLANES ARE LINING
UP IN FRONT OF YOU AND BEHIND YOU TO TAKE-OFF
THE RUNWAY YOU ARE ON HAS MOST LIKELY SEEN
CONSTANT USE SINCE ITS CONSTRUCTION WITHOUT
A SINGLE ACCIDENT
YOUR PILOT AND CO-PILOT AND ENTIRE FLIGHT STAFF
HAVE FLOWN MOST OF THEIR CAREERS AND WILL
CONTINUE FLYING FOR THE REST OF THEIR CAREERS
THE REASON THAT THESE STATISTICS WILL NOT MAKE
YOU FEEL ANY BETTER IS BECAUSE YOUR BRAIN WILL
RELEASE STRESS HORMONES AS SOON AS YOU FEEL
THAT LITTLE BIT OF TURBULENCE
AND YOU WILL QUICKLY FORGET THESE STATISTICS.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? WE'LL TRY ONE MORE
ANYWAY. YOU PROBABLY THINK THAT WHEN YOU
GET IN A CAR CRASH YOU HAVE A GOOD CHANCE
OF SURVIVING BUT AS SOON AS THE PLANE STARTS
GOING DOWN YOU'RE DOOMED RIGHT? WRONG.
EVEN IF YOU DO SOMEHOW MANAGE TO GET IN A
PLANE CRASH (YOU WON'T), YOU WILL ALMOST
CERTAINLY SURVIVE. BETWEEN 1993 AND 2000
THERE WERE 568 PLANE CRASHES IN THE US
INVOLVING 53,487 PEOPLE. 51,207 SURVIVED.
ACTUALLY, EVEN ON THE WORST 26 CRASHES,
MORE THAN HALF OF THE PASSENGERS SURVIVED.
SEE? WE TOLD YOU THAT YOUR FEAR WAS
JUST PLANE SILLY.
Comment on this