An Age of Magic

Flying is still safer than driving the car

June 4, 2009 on 8:20 pm | In Travel | No Comments

The latest air disaster which has seen an Air France Airbus 330 disappear en route from Brazil to Paris reads like every nervous flyer’s worst nightmare. Terrible weather, a storm, horrendous turbulence and then the theory that the pilots slowed the plane down too much in navigating the turbulence so that it stalled mid-air and plunged into the sea certainly makes me want to think twice about flying again.

It is so sad to think – to know – that there would have been a good number of people on that plane who would have been nervy flyers and then to have been involved in what they would have been sitting there dreading…

Still, it is well known that the trip to the airport in the car carries far more risks than the actual flight and to be true there are thousands of planes criss-crossing the skies all the time without incident. All the same, as the news trickles in about this latest disaster people will be considering going on Caribbean cruises  in bigger numbers than before. I look at it this way – that crash will not be the last one!

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