My parents both worked for the airlines when I was a kid. They taught me to say, “if it’s not Boeing, I’m not going!” when I was like six. It was cute. It did not age well. Tighten those bolts dummies!!
I mean you never know. I truly thought I'd be hysterical if my plane was going down but it just seemed pointless? It was weird having to be a person for the rest of the day, though.
yeah, i can see that, and i very much respect that. def not me - once i was in a plane over a cat 5 tornado, then i was supposed to catch a second flight, but when we landed i was like, NOPE, i just panicked and cried embarrassingly for 30min, not getting on another one till tomorrow thx. but put me in a medical emergency and i am COOL AS A CUCUMBER. weird. we all have our things our brains can tolerate/not tolerate i guess.
I've never tried to make a call from a plane. I have heard from electrical engineers that all that "phone in plane mode or off" is obsolete, so you're not *supposed* to be able to call from a phone? But don't some planes offer that as an add-on fee (or was that a brief maybe we can try this)? I don't know. But you're inside a giant metal tube, and heck, my cell service doesn't even work so well when I'm in the back of the house, which has a metal roof. Sheets of metal, or being fully enclosed in metal... wait. Cars? Well there's a lot of glass. Oh - you almost died??? Aren't those flight attendants amazing? We're all going to die, but I'm going to die trying to keep the other dying people from screaming and shitting their pants.
I mean they definitely did their jobs! I think the whole flight crew was amazing given the circumstances. But ya know, I was 11 when 9/11 happened, and we've all heard the phone calls/voicemails from those planes. I'd assumed that technology in that regard hadn't gotten worse. It certainly has.
My parents both worked for the airlines when I was a kid. They taught me to say, “if it’s not Boeing, I’m not going!” when I was like six. It was cute. It did not age well. Tighten those bolts dummies!!
Hahaha, everything from our childhood aged like milk except us.
omg i would not have handled that that well. i'm in awe.
I mean you never know. I truly thought I'd be hysterical if my plane was going down but it just seemed pointless? It was weird having to be a person for the rest of the day, though.
yeah, i can see that, and i very much respect that. def not me - once i was in a plane over a cat 5 tornado, then i was supposed to catch a second flight, but when we landed i was like, NOPE, i just panicked and cried embarrassingly for 30min, not getting on another one till tomorrow thx. but put me in a medical emergency and i am COOL AS A CUCUMBER. weird. we all have our things our brains can tolerate/not tolerate i guess.
I've never tried to make a call from a plane. I have heard from electrical engineers that all that "phone in plane mode or off" is obsolete, so you're not *supposed* to be able to call from a phone? But don't some planes offer that as an add-on fee (or was that a brief maybe we can try this)? I don't know. But you're inside a giant metal tube, and heck, my cell service doesn't even work so well when I'm in the back of the house, which has a metal roof. Sheets of metal, or being fully enclosed in metal... wait. Cars? Well there's a lot of glass. Oh - you almost died??? Aren't those flight attendants amazing? We're all going to die, but I'm going to die trying to keep the other dying people from screaming and shitting their pants.
I mean they definitely did their jobs! I think the whole flight crew was amazing given the circumstances. But ya know, I was 11 when 9/11 happened, and we've all heard the phone calls/voicemails from those planes. I'd assumed that technology in that regard hadn't gotten worse. It certainly has.