Only a few weeks after the Northwest fiasco, where two pilots overshot the airport they were supposed to land in by 1.5 hours, a United Airlines pilot is charged with being drunk as he was about to start a transatlantic flight. (Reuters)
Every time something like this happens I am reminded of the often-used line that says flying is a much safer way of travel than driving. Really?! Here is a list of things to consider:
- You can’t pull over and stop if there is something wrong with the airplane.
- If you find out the pilot is drunk in mid flight, you can’t ask to be let off the plane.
- You don’t have to worry about your landing gear deploying if you are traveling by car.
- If your car breaks down on the road, it coast to a gentle stop at the side of the road (or, at worst, in the middle of the road)
- If your car’s engine stops you don’t plunge 30,000 feet to your death.
- If you run out of fuel, you don’t plunge 30,000 feet to your death.
- If your car becomes inoperative for any reason, you don’t plunge 30,000 feet to your death. See a pattern?
- When traveling by car, you are never in danger of sucking a bird into your engine and crashing.
- If you hit something with your car it’s most likely not going to be a mountain.
- In a car you won’t experience heart-stopping turbulence.
But at least you can use your seat cushion as a flotation device, in the extremely unlikely event of a water landing where you are not torn limb from limb.
Lmao. Love it :)
No wonder I hate flying! :d Potential donors are flying to their deaths, weeeeee~!
rotfl! I love it! I’ve heard of one instance where both pilots locked themselves out of a cockpit mid flight (true story) they had to chop the door down to get back in…I wonder how that could be worked in there…and more importantly how to work plunging 30,000 feet into in along with it! lol
These days we’re not allowed to carry anything on a plane even resembling a nail file, how would they chop their way in if that happened today? Is there an axe secreted somewhere on the plane & if there is, would someone tell me where so I can cut through the bread rolls they serve
It seems to me that the general consensus amongst those who make airline security policy is that a nail file is, in fact, capable of chopping down said door.
That said, if someone manages to hijack a plane using a nail file, they deserve to keep the damn plane.
Free snacks and drinks in flight! And food, if it’s a long enough flight! At least I’ll have something to vomit up when I plummet 30,000 feet, and the time to do it, too, since a car wreck is usually instantaneous.
There’s also almost zero chance of a body cavity search before being allowed to travel by car.
With the likelyhood of never receiving a body cavity search when travelling by car near 0%, l am now committed to only travelling by plane or squad car.
Rofl
Ya…’floating in the North Atlantic for several days, clinging to a pillow full of beer farts!’…George Carlin
Every person has been in or know someone personally who has been in a car accident. How many people do you know that have been in a plane crash or one of the family members. Close to none!
Dubcub, that’s possibly because 95% of those in such a crash DIE.
Mikel…you can know someone who is dead….
Lawl
drunk pilot = FAIL. :p
Wow. This is the first time (that ive read at least) where someone hasn’t yet been “offended”.
Ditto.
What, not offended??? Obviously there are no drunk pilots reading these comments then… lol
This is hilarious! I was on a flight once and the attendant was going through the announcements, and said the part about using the seats as flotation devices. Then said, “Since we are flying to Charlotte, NC and there are no bodies of water on our way, this should come in handy as you plunge into the treetops”.