Think you had a bad flight?

Read this story from the NYTimes and you'll never complain about your particular flight ever again.

The only story I have that approaches this was when our flight to Tucson was struck by lightning on landing approach. Very loud and very scary - not helped by the fact that the pilots never said a word to the passengers AND it was a couple of weeks after that 747 out of New York blew up on take off. Of course, we landed without further incident, which was much better than some of the unfortunate folks in the aforementioned stories fared.

Is flying still statistically the safest way to travel? I'm guessing it is, but as I get a little older I find myself shying away from air travel whenever possible.


Thurston