Terrified of flying, reading news, have to book summer tickets
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Anonymous
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Hi everyone, I am posting this here not in the political or health forums. I have a big fear of flying and take clonazepam to get through the domestic flights. I have two little children who only see their grandparents during the summer for a few weeks so we have always flown in summer for a month or so.
With the news about FAA and spaceX and all these horrible plane events, I am scared to book tickets and I don’t know if it’s my irrational fear or if I should wait. What do I do? Buy and wait and see? I’m a federal employee so I know the importance of the FAA and ATC so I am all over the place emotionally. Seeing the video of that DCA flight is still replaying in my mind and I’m thinking how close they were to landing and being safe. |
Anonymous
| I mean, when it’s your time, it’s your time. No point in being fearful. |
Anonymous
Exactly. You're going to go sometime. If it's on a plane so be it. You have absolutely no control over this. |
Anonymous
| What are your options? Road trip? Train? It's worth considering if you have the time to spare. |
Anonymous
What if it's not my time, but it's the guy flying the airplanes's time? |
Anonymous
Cars and trains are more dangerous in terms of death per passenger mile than commercial flights, even with the recent crash. There has been one fatal crash in decades. Even the plane today that flipped on landing, skidded on its top, and caught on fire had enough safety features that everyone survived (albeit with injuries, but not worse than a car rollover). I don't like flying either. But it's not logical to pick other modes of travel for safety reasons. |
Anonymous
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Consider your options:
1) Different transportation (car, etc). 2) Can your spouse take the kids to Grandma’s? 3) Stay home. |
Anonymous
| Just don't go. It's as simple as that. |
Anonymous
| Might be a good year to skip vacations for once then. |
Anonymous
| 2.9 million people fly in the US every single day. Before January, there hadn’t been a death since 2009. 16 years x 365 days x 2.9 million people. Think about that. The odds are still incredibly in your favor. |
Anonymous
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OP it’s definitely your irrational fear. I’m not downplaying that, and I think it’s great that you get treatment for it. And I absolutely get why news about a plane crash would be a very real and important factor for how much fear you have to deal with.
But no, your actual risk from flying commercially has not changed in any meaningful way. So you have a real anxiety problem to really address in whatever way you and your doctors think is best, but not a real planes problem. |
Anonymous
If you two wear seatbelts when you drive and helmets when you ride a bicycle, you can shut your big hypocritical mouths. If you or your children have food allergies and you read labels and carry an epi-pen, you can shut your big hypocritical mouths. If you so much as give your children antibiotics as prescribed for strep, you can shut your big hypocritical mouths. |
Anonymous
DP here. I do all of those things and still fly. Because I understand statistics and risk assessment. |
Anonymous
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You’re right to be scared. You should be. I’m not flying anymore until well after trump is gone and we get a Democrat back in control.
We’re about to witness an unprecedented number of plane crashes due to DOGE job cuts. Thousands of people are going to die in plane crashes in the next few years. |
Anonymous
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You are only hearing about it because of the DCA crash. Otherwise the Toronto thing would have been buried behind some celerity story.
If it bleeds it leads. |