Yeah, disregading that "water landing" is an oxymoron to begin with, a plane floats about as well as a boat flies.
Engine falling off
Hyrdaulic Lines Severed, loss of control
Flaps not extended on takeoff
Windsheer / Weather
Mid-Air Collison
Fire on plane
I always like it when they say, "In the event of a water landing . . . " If you didn't put the plane there on purpose it wasn't a landing, it was a crash, water or no water.
Yeah, disregading that "water landing" is an oxymoron to begin with, a plane floats about as well as a boat flies.
Windsor - Apparently, you subscribe to the theory that any landing you walk away from is a good landing. I believe that is a pilot's motto.
It is T minus 25 days until I fly over to Britain. Thanks for starting this thread. Just what I need to be thinking about!!!
I voted for windsheer/weather because EarlJam [forgot?] to include gremlins. Now matter what altitude, 5.5 feet or 20,000 feet, them are some scary critters.
I don't talk about flying.
<shudder>
I don't worry about any of that actually.
I've always loved lewis grizzard's comment that it was not flying that scared him. it was crashing and burning that did.
I don't fly that much anymore. My arms get tired.
[insert uproarious laughter]
-PilotJam
I knew I shouldn't have read this thread...
I'm pretty much afraid of flying in general. Takeoffs and landings are the worst, but I don't like turbulence either. Sleeping usually helps, but about 10% of the time I'll have a dream about the plane crashing. Waking up from a plane crash nightmare to find yourself still on a plane? Yeah, not awesome.
What about white over red?
No hijacked plane option?
The odds of my being in any sort of plane crash are so small that worrying about what type of crash I might be involved in seems irrational to me. I don't give it a second's thought.
I took the weather/windshear option. Actually, that's probably not what scares me the most. It's the landing on some deserted island with scary people that steal children and have a smoke monster "security system". If you think I'm flying over the south pacific any time soon, you must be crazy.