Faye said she had no intention of speaking to the media until she saw the initial statements from Alaska in the aftermath of the accident, which emphasized that there were only minor injuries and to her seemed to diminish the severity of what had happened.
And she became angrier when she read accounts of how pilots had reported intermittent depressurization warnings for the airplane in the days before Friday’s flight.
Flying in a US based major commercial flight is essentially the safest form of transit there is. The “scariness” factor and the seriousness which which aviation incidents are treated wildly inflates the impression of danger. You are more likely to be injured driving to the airport than on the plane.
Also, the air in a plane is mostly not recycled, most of it is fed from compressed outside air brought in via the engines (before fuel is added obviously), the air that is recycled is HEPA filtered and won’t get you sick.
It is frightening how many people believe that they are being safer by driving instead of flying. Driving is among the most dangerous common forms of transportation, the illusion that you have control over your safety in a car unlike a plane is warping your perspective. You are hundreds of times more likely per mile to die in a car accident than a major carrier US based flight.
Yes but at least I’ll die without my knees jammed into the seat in front of me and a knot in my back