Some of you may know that I am not a great fan of flying, wonder why?:
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A jet owned by leading Brazilian airline TAM landed safely on Tuesday after one of its doors fell off and crashed to earth next to a supermarket shortly after departure from Sao Paulo.
No one was hurt in the incident, a TAM spokeswoman said. The Fokker 100 plane with 79 people aboard en route to Rio de Janeiro returned to the airport safely 18 minutes after taking off.
TAM has been replacing its Fokker planes since the Dutch aircraft maker went bankrupt 10 years ago. It still has 22, but expects to gradually eliminate all of them by 2010.
The same type of plane, also operated by TAM, caused one of Brazil's worst air disasters in 1996. It crashed in an urban area shortly after taking off from Sao Paulo, killing about 100 people, including some on the ground.
In 1997, an explosion of undetermined origin killed a passenger who was blown out of a TAM Fokker 100 during flight. In 2001 an engine breakup on a TAM Fokker 100 caused two cabin windows to shatter and one of 82 passengers aboard died as a result of the depressurization.
You can quote me all the statistics you want, but I have never had a car door (or bike) fall on me from 150 feet in the air.
Eric, I kind of missed your current events so I figured I would post something...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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Pete, I for one love flying, however I do agree that there is one thing that statistics just don’t account for, and that is the whole very scary process of falling if shit goes wrong.
thanks for this post PJ. I am in total aggreement with you, flying freaks the hell outta me. The last time I flew was over 6 years ago and I dont plan on doing it again. Period.
if shit goes wrong, your LUCKY if you get to fall.
I'll still fly if it's neccesary but I don't do it sober (big surprise)
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