One of the few times I was scared flying (as crew) was when we got hit by wake turbulence - the younger pilot took control and I was darn glad to be in a turbo-prop that day.
(Of course there are a gazillion flight stories out there.)
As Scott says; it is your choice- start reading about incidents... you'll never fly again.
Hoppy, have you seen the photo of the Continental Airlines crash in Buffalo? That was also due to ice build up. Are you going to stop flying Bombardier Dash 8's also. Did you see the photo of the Qantas B747 that had a chunk blown out of it and had to make an emergency landing in Manila? Are you going to stop flying Qantas or on B747's?
Don't you think that you are being more than just slightly hysterical?
No, but I am used to being made to stare at 'fascinating' aircraft engines. systems and having their workings and improvements/ failures explained over and over and over..........
No I've moved on to bigger things unless you want to be taken for a ride- again. Ah but I just did that didn't I? I am facinate by the high quality machin ing on all those compressor blades, they are kind of pretty, make nice keyrings but that's as far as it goes.
Iran revolution, natural healer of a peritonitis, participated in an airlift, shop second hand and Harrods, expert on anything from economics to aviation...
Not even Salsa and Canadian Dude toghether could beat you.
I just don't like it when it affects other people, with you I guess that risk analysis is an occupational hazard. Like Hsaing said ( funny post on project management)- a little risk analysis saves cleaning the fan -well some thing like that anyway. Except, I guess, here the risk is a lot more than a dirty fan.
Sorry I brought it up. but it seems to be hot on the aviation blogs:
Oh, please, airwhiners.net? If you really want the dirt then you need to go to pprune....and they don't seem half as panicked as you do and they fly these monsters for a living.