Flight 253

[Cataholic]

Cars are so much more dangerous thats what I don't understand. My friends son is in the hospital with a broken back, neck, skull...from a car...and this type of thing happens all the time but people don't think twice before jumping behind the wheel it just seems kind of funny to me.

Since I moved home in 1995, I hardly ever fly. Since J came along, I have flown twice. So, I am not really a traveller by any stretch. But, I do drive all the time, of course. I rationalize your comments like this: most of the time, a car wreck will be a non-fatal situation. A plane wreck is usually a fatal situation. I would rather take my chances on the car situation.

[caseysmom]

Since I moved home in 1995, I hardly ever fly. Since J came along, I have flown twice. So, I am not really a traveller by any stretch. But, I do drive all the time, of course. I rationalize your comments like this: most of the time, a car wreck will be a non-fatal situation. A plane wreck is usually a fatal situation. I would rather take my chances on the car situation.

Well I'm not saying I don't understand because I get scared at takeoff's also it is just ironic to me that none of us usually feel that way about driving a car, I guess we take it for granted because we drive more often. With two new teen drivers trust me cars make me think twice now!

[Alysser]

Well I'm not saying I don't understand because I get scared at takeoff's also it is just ironic to me that none of us usually feel that way about driving a car, I guess we take it for granted because we drive more often. With two new teen drivers trust me cars make me think twice now!

I don't get scared of flying at all, hell, I hate airport security and jams as much as the next person but maybe I'm a weirdo, the thought of flight is just fascinating to me. I've wanted to be an astronaut (secretly) for the past 2 years (my sci-fi obsession don't help this) and honestly was really upset when I found out I couldn't be because I am not in perfect physical shape, damn this heart condition. I guess I'm odd, but I think Space Travel would be absolutely amazing. I LOVE getting as close to it as possible so I'll fly anytime. It's always something I'll wanna do..hopefully in my next life.

Anyway, I know what you mean about how it's funny that driving is just as dangerous if not much more yet people still drive. But then again, human nature is funny to. I agree that driving is second nature to most people and it's just something you're used to. Although it sucks that it's so easy to get a liscence for some people.

I too am wondering how the heck he got passed security in TWO countries with an explosive device in his underwear I heard that his father had said that he was acting suspcious to authorities but they didn't listen apparently. That seems to happen far too often. I hope they find out more soon and I am glad it didn't end up like the terrorists had intended it to.

[RICHARD]

I guess trying to explode your underwear doesn't help?

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Secret of 'mile high club' revealed

A philosopher has unravelled the mystery of why randy plane passengers can risk everything to join the mile high club after a study at Heathrow airport.

Alain de Botton spent a week observing passengers passing through the airport and discovered that the fear of death makes them shed their inhibitions.

Because subconsciously they accept they might die while flying, it arouses ancient animal survival passions that sometimes cannot be quelled, he explained.

"Airports bring us closer to the possibility of death.

"Such an idea makes us free of inhibitions, so we make love in airplanes. Feeling our mortality, we feel more free towards sex than usual," he told Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List.

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FREE? Does this guy know about the penalties for pulling stunts like THAT?

[Grace]

First we have to see how this joker got on board.

Considering he bought a one-way ticket, paid in cash, and had no baggage.

Red flags anyone

[RICHARD]

Considering he bought a one-way ticket, paid in cash, and had no baggage.

Red flags anyone

That's my prob with the reporting.

They blame the U.S. officials for letting him on board?

[RICHARD]

Seriously,
Janet and Obama really care about how we fly?

What is the security on a private plane like AF1?

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Everyone is scrambling to blame everyone else about this turd.

The U.S. has little or no control over who boards a plane in a foreign country.
Oh, btw, we can suggest who gets on, after that?

How may Kareem Abdul Muhammed , Cassius Clay, Chad Ochocinco people are their on the planet.

To even think that we can have a lead on all the people on our "watch lists"
is probably the stupidest idea we all could have.

Do a Google search on YOURNAMEHERE and see how many people there are with your First, Last, MI....then? Think about how many times you have been mistaken for someone else.


So far? I was a serial killer, a delinquent father and god know what else, because I shared a name with these creeps.

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Everyone is indignant of being searched, prodded or squeezed, yet they do not want to die when some idiot "remodels" the section where they are sitting.

The local news is talking about the 'wave scanners' that wil be used to check passengers.

THe reporter states that the screener will be able to see everything under the passenger's clothes-down to what kind of underwear you have on.

Oooooh! Who really cares?

If have to show my arse to get where I am going, safely?

We are so paranoid about getting on a plane, we really don't realize that the people fishing your body out of the ocean don't care about your underwear.

I am more nervous about how they fish my fat arse from the ocean after the 'fall'.