i have a pretty big phobia of flying

and when i went on an 8 hour flight.and every time we hit turbulence id get really tense and nervous lol

but ive never had a serious scary experience

has anyone had a really bad one that would like to share?

Snakes. Srsly.

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dumb thread btw.

Ont ime when i was like 10 on a plane to ft lauderdale.




It made a hard landing and a bunch of those oxygen mask things dropped out of the compartments.


That was pretty scary. Especially since a bunch of old people started screaming that they wanted to get out of the plane.

While taking some shitty charter plane to turkey I had a pretty scary experience. The plane was a piece of shit. We had the pleasure of waiting in the plane when they decided to cut the power and work on the plane right before we left. Half way through the flight there was some minor turbulence and the suddenly the plane drops several hundred feet for probably 5 seconds. It was funny watching people scream and fly out of their seats.

I once had to preform an exorcism on the pilot mid-flight.

I refuse to fly until the end of this month when I'll be 21 and can drink midflight. At least if I'm drunk I won't know that shit's gone wrong until ... wait, I won't know. Fuck it.

Fly to England or some place where drinking laws are 18+, enjoy the complementary booze.

best post.

I crashed into one of the twin towers.

Not soon enough.

Got put in a holding pattern over Texas due to thunderstorms. So here we are flying THROUGH these huge developing thunderheads and we start to run out of fuel, so the pilot comes on the intercom and says we need to make an urgent landing at College Station to refuel. We fly around in the turbulence and darkening skies waiting to be cleared to land, and finally we are able to come in for the final approach.

We end up SLAMMING into the runway much harder than most landing gear maintenance guys would probably recommend. We guessed that there probably wasn't enough fuel left to make a second approach so the pilot had to make the landing count.

The ground crews were bitching that it wasn't a scheduled landing so the pilot had to come out and negotiate with the fuel guys. Turns out the pilot was some old geezer probably close to mandatory retirement.

I guess old people are about as good at flying as they are at driving.

plane was hijacked whilst on the tarmac, i was flying a boeing 737-600.

this was in flight sim by the way :P

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Last time I flew Air Canada...

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All of my flight experiences, scratch that, all of my traveling experiences have been good ones.

Being at the VERY back of the plane during turbulence.

not very interesting.

One time I got on the wrong plane and it turned out to be an Army troop plane. They made me kill a bunch of Iraqi civilians before I could explain the situation to them.

Fun trip.

Pretty hard landing in snow in northern Finland and the tip of the wing was only about an inch from hitting the ground.

Scared the shit out of nearly everyone.

Caught some flak over 'nam in 1971.

^^ What the hell is up with all these half-assed posts masquerading as humor? Go read Nuclearwinter's thread

Anyways, I had a pretty bad experience flying into Denver a couple of years ago. I was to be visiting some family who lived there, but on the tarmac I damn near felt like that'd never happen. It was December, and the runway was pretty slick, and the pilot came close to skidding off.

None too bad, though. All 'cause of Winter weather, mostly...

Our plane was coming in for a landing in Tokyo. There was a huge thunder storm in the area.
The pilot makes an approach but it's to rough. We have to go around and use the other end on the runway.
The pilot comes in for an approach and the friggin storm moved. The plane start going down and going around huge thunder clouds. Left, right, up and down.
All of a sudden, the plane slide into a cloud. We drop a whole bunch of feet and we get hit by a lightning. The lights went out, the engine went out and everything not bolted to the floor start floating in the air toward the ceiling. Emergency power come on. All in a matter of seconds. Then we hit the bottom of the drop and the plane shoots up. Needless to say that everything that was floating abruptly started to come down. The overhead panels fly open and everything start flying around. I am looking out the window and can't see shit but heavy rain.
All of a sudden, I see the ground and the plane slams down on the runway.

It was kind of funny to see people coming out of the plane with all kinds of cuts and bruises and we didn't crash.

Drink a few beers at the airport before you board if your worried or down a valium helps alot.

1. Took an 18 hour flight, Beijing to Chicago, with a crying baby on board.

2. When I was a kid I was in a little 6-seater charter plane when the passenger door suddenly blew open at altitude. All the maps and shit starting swirling around the cabin and we had to make an emergency landing to close it. It wasn't that scary, really, it wasn't like we had lost control.

3. Flying RyanAir around Europe...just rough landings and shit. And their fucking seats don't lay back.

Fucking planes waking me up that time I lived near the airport

Damn that fucking sucks. I know the feeling thats what it was like when I did a 14 hour flight to Germany.

On a flight to Hong Kong I landed during a thunderstorm; went right through a cloud only to hit severe turbulence and descend at least 300 feet. My stomach dropped like a fucking rollercoaster. It sounded like a gun went off right outside the window. I hate flying.

All of my flying experiences have been fairly pleasant. I did have to spend the night in the Dallas airport once, though, and that sucked goat.

i work for united, and fly/travel almost every week. my most scary experience..... *fat guy drools on shoulder* definitely.



oh wait there was also this little puddle jumper i was on in brazil where i witnessed the pilots drinking whiskey the entire flight kicking back like they were home on their couches watching monday night football. i didnt enjoy that landing too much, was also my first water landing.

Never had a bad experience and never had any anxiety about flying, since you know, it's statistically safer than driving and all.

People who are afraid of flying are funny, uneducated fucks.

Does the phrase 'Super Six-Four down' mean anything to you? ...I was there, WORST flight EVER.

I've never been on an airplane. :o

srsly

No one gives a fuck about your pathetic life or anything about you.

No one gives a fuck about your pathetic life or anything about you.

Who are you?

Engine started on fire.
Srsly

who are you?


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Imagine that guy saying that, but with a nasal sound to it. It all fits so well.

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Grandma's Boy! Fucking win!

Every time you get behind the wheel of a car, you're a steering wheel turn away from piles of twisted muscle tissue, and fat globs busting through the severed remains of a torsoe. When you're flying, there is nothing for the plane to hit, and no reason for the wings to fall off. It is not logical to fear flying.

-Uncle Phil, mayn! How you gon play a nephew?

The only flaw to your theory is that if a car stalls, you can simply roll to the side of the road. If a plane stalls, well, at least you have a little while before making your final impact.

Does anyone remember the attempted trans Atlantic airline bombings of '06?


Probably not.


Funniest part is, turns out the entire thing was just fear mongering, an attempt to renew public support for the middle east conflict.


On 8 September 2008 after more than 50 hours of deliberations, the jury did not find any of the defendants guilty of conspiring to target aircraft. The jury found Ali, Sarwar and Hussein guilty of conspiracy to murder charges but was unable to reach verdicts on charges relating to the alleged plot to blow up aircraft in respect of them.
The jurors were unable to reach verdicts on those charges or conspiracy to murder charges as well on conspiracy to detonate explosives on aircraft against Ibrahim Savant, 27, of Stoke Newington, Umar Islam, 30, of Plaistow, and Waheed Zaman, 24, and Arafat Waheed Khan, 27, both of Walthamstow, all London. Mohammad Gulzar, 27, of Barking, east London, was found not guilty on all counts.
Prior to the arrests, the plot was discussed at a high level of government, with then Prime Minister Tony Blair knowing about it for months, and alerting President George Bush to the investigation on Sunday 6 August 2006.[31]
On 9 August, hours before the arrests, the then Home Secretary John Reid gave a major speech to Demos (a British think-tank) hinting at a new round of anti-terror legislation and claiming that the country was facing "probably the most sustained period of severe threat since the end of the second world war".[32] The following day Reid broke the news along with Douglas Alexander, the Transport Secretary.

The only flaw to your theory is that if a car stalls, you can simply roll to the side of the road. If a plane stalls, well, at least you have a little while before making your final impact.

A plane at full altitude can glide for about 100 miles where it can make an emergency landing in an appropriate spot :)

I once hit an air pocket when flying to Japan. It sucked. For those who don't know what an air pocket is, it's where there's like really really light air or something in this pocket, and when a plane flies into it, it can't keep itself up, like if your on ground and you walk into a pool of water, you can't keep walking on the water, its not dense enough.

Anyways, the plane dropped outta the sky... well actually, it dropped outta the air pocket, it kept falling until we could push on through again, it was so fucking scary, because the plane just falls, and you get the massive falling sensation. It sucks. I seriously thought I was going to die.
Everyone tripped out.

Does anyone remember the attempted trans Atlantic airline bombings of '06?


Doubt ill ever forget. The plane that was supposedly going to be bombed was the one after my plane. Was weird to see that on the news when I got the the states.

Snakes. Srsly.

You fucker I was gonna say that :(

We've got clearance Clarance. Roger Roger, whats our vector victor?

-1 to the pilot for not shooting lasers at it

Who are you?
you being well known in SG doesn't make you any less of a bell-end.

The only flaw to your theory is that if a car stalls, you can simply roll to the side of the road. If a plane stalls, well, at least you have a little while before making your final impact.

I trained as a pilot for many a hour, I did stall recovery over and over.

It doesn't just stall -> ground.

You have a good while to glide and re-start engine or plot an emergency landing.

Does anyone remember the attempted trans Atlantic airline bombings of '06?


Probably not.


Funniest part is, turns out the entire thing was just fear mongering, an attempt to renew public support for the middle east conflict.

I remember that shit - it's why we can't take fucking water bottles on flights any more, isn't it? These guys were supposedly going to mix up some liquid explosive in mid flight which in reality requires a lab and distillation equipment and all that, but it was a enough to spook the population into handing over their Fruitopia at the metal detector.