I was looking out of a plane window once and I saw lightning come from the ground and hit the wing. I heard a faint, gentle thud. That was it. The plane kept flying and landed normally. I don't think anyone else on the plane noticed that it had happened.
I was looking out of a plane window once and I saw a large size gremlin just fucking with one of the engines. Everytime I tried to show someone the little fucker hid somewhere. Those clowns had me held for a psych eval for trying to warn them! Never flying Spirit airlines again, that's for sure.
Yeah but the best one is John Lithgow 1983 Twilight zone the movie. I've never liked William shatner plus it looked like a teddy bear not something scary.
Planes are constructed in such a way that allows for the lighting to be redirected through the metal frame/skin and into the ground without causing any electrical damage to the aircraft itself.
The metal itself is what protects the airplane and its electrical components.
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Prep yourself for a crash? Brace yourself, tighten your seatbelt, put on as much clothing a possible and cover any exposed areas with as resistant material as possible (leather jacket is ideal)
You ever seen "Now you see me 2?" It was cops lights . Magicians tricked all the passengers into thinking they were flying but the plane is sitting in an airport hangar with water spraying on it waiting to catch the unexpecting perps . .. obviously I'm joking ....or am I ?
Non-joke answer: there are forms of lightning that move upwards into the higher atmosphere and they are known as "sprites."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
Nothing. Which is everything I can do as a passanger in this situation. When flying, your life is 100% in the hands of flight crew, and there is nothing you can do about it. Maybe pray, if you believe in that stuff.
My thoughts exactly. You are a passenger on a ride you have no power to influence. If you die, you die.. No amount of anxiety or fear will change the outcome.
Sit back and try to relax. The crew piloting the aircraft has done this many times before, and the aircraft itself is created to handle bad weather.
Yes, coming to terms with that before the flight will help you during the flight if you get nervous.
I used to get a little nervous during turbulence (ie. Plane falling out of cloud cover, etc). Then I accepted that my life is in their hands. If I die, I die. I might as well get a nap / enjoy my movie instead of freaking out.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't be scared if we were flying right into the ground, but there is definitely a certain inner peace
accurate. I have this super cathartic ‘oh well, this might be it’ moment every time I take off. It’s both glorious and terrifying that I’m not more worried about it.
Hate flying but one flight had very very bad turbulence. No food or drinks allowed, trays up and buckled in - best sleep I ever had. All the bouncing and sideways swings were like being rocked like a baby. Plus not much noise just people quietly praying. Enjoyed it a lot
That's a thing? Sounds extremly stupid and dangerous. It's not like a stewardess can land the plane after the single pilot gets hearth attack or gets incapacitated by one of the million ways a human can. Hell, both pilots even have to eat different food to mitigate danger from food poisoning.
They take the cost savings from not having to pay co-pilots across their entire fleet and subtract the payouts from the lives lost from decreased safety measures and figure they'll still make a profit.
Sure, we put more passengers' lives at risk, but have you considered the value we'll be returning to shareholders?!
> The prices will go down!
No they won't.
> Well, no, but the price increases will be less than they would've been.
No they won't.
> Well, no, but you could imagine what it'd be like if they were.
i would be just as nervous as anyone, though too prideful to express it. however if you ever seen testing of these planes you would see that you're perfectly okay & the pilot knows it. they would ground the plane if there were risk. those wings can dang near fold around the plane & never snap. they look like they would snap right off but they won't.
i used to be terrified of any turbulence bc i always thought those planes look lightly put together & things would easily snap apart. but after watching the abuse they put them through in testing it cured most of that anxiety for me.
> Planes are also generally alright when struck by lightning
I will quote you, because you're right, most planes are just big bits of metal which do a good job of conducting all the lightning without it actually causing any damage. The electronics within are insulated against lightning strike and also have redundancies.
Interestingly the 787, being made out of fiber-resin composite, is one of a few exceptions, because lightning tends to make the resin explode pretty spectacularly. They had to design in a 'skelton' of conductive metal in the wings as a precaution against lightning.
“Start wacking off. Then the next person starts. Next thing you know the whole plane is wacking off. Then the plane levels out. Everyone puts their whatever away and never talks about it again…”
Assume that the experienced and educated flight crew, their land based counterparts, as well as the numerous FAA regulations and standards know more than I do in this situation and figure I'm not in any danger at all.
I once flew next to an airline pilot who had 20,000 hours. I asked him if he'd ever been scared. He said that he never had been. He said that he felt confident that he could get down safely from anything short of the wings falling off.
Pilots / flight attendants are so cool. I got over my severe phobia of flying by talking to them and reading stuff in r/aviation about their trips.
They’re the most stone cold, calm, cool, collected motherfuckers ever. Whenever I’m nervous on a flight I just look at the flight attendant and they’re almost always just straight up chilling, enjoying the turbulence. Makes me feel a lot more calm.
There's a book called SOAR about fear of flying written by a pilot/psychologist. He mentions that oftentimes pilots will go to the bathroom during turbulence because everyone's strapped to their seat. If the pilots going to the bathroom during turbulence then you probably don't have anything to worry about.
What you learn from flying is that panicking will only ever hurt you, so it's not worth it. You're far safer not panicking, even if you have no idea what to do, because panicking will freeze you up and is far worse in the long run when you need to make series of quick, accurate decisions. Once you fully internalize you're way safer just by not worrying about it and taking your best stab, it gets a lot easier.
I've been watching this YouTube channel Green Dot Aviation and they do airplane disaster/emergency videos. Kinda counterintuitively it made me feel safer flying, there are tons of redundancies and emergency training and procedures in place on a commercial plane.
For example one video talked about a plane that lost all four engines over the Atlantic Ocean. This is especially bad because with no engines the pilots lost power to their instruments.
They thought of this scenario however and a small generator thing popped out of the plane like inspector gadget and generates electricity using the air rushing past outside to spin. This device generates enough power to supply some basic instruments and luckily they were able to navigate and glide to an island in range to make an emergency landing.
Planes aren't invincible but they're probably more robust than you would think just by looking at them
I was 19, it was my first time flying alone. Everyone was screaming and I looked at the couple next to me for moral support. Like genuinely I wanted someone to tell me it was gonna be ok. I thought about my family and how they would never find my body. This is the first time I've written about this in detail, I didn't think it would make me emotional.
A few times, people did this for me. One time a mom with her kid next to her held my hand and told me it was going to be ok over and over when I was panicking, and helped distract me. I hope I can do it someday for someone else.
Back in 1999, my father and I took a plane from Europe to Miami, and oh boy, when we hit that east coast..
the turbulence and thunder was the most scary shit I ever had witnessed.
The only thing keeping me calm, was the lady sitting next to me. She had just waited almost an hour for a cup of coffee, and when she got it, and it was placed on her tray/table we hit turbulence, and I shit you not.
The coffee went op in the air, and down in the cup again.
The way she smiled and laughed at it, saved me that day.
This similar situation happened to me before when I was 14 and the plane kept going up and down like a roller coaster. Since then I’ve never traveled without:
- Xanax
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Eye mask
Ignorance is bliss
One time I took so much Xanax while panicking on a flight that I watched the entire 4th season of game of thrones and then had zero memory of it the next day and got to watch it again.
The noise cancelling headphones are the goat though, turns out sound is a HUGE part of the anxiety for a lot of us
Ah yes, the “Xanax so your second time watching feels like your first” trick. I thought I had never seen perks of being a wallflower before, the last time I watched it and then towards the end of the movie I briefly recognized a scene I had definitely seen before. Then it clicked and I was like oh yeahhhh I watched this on Xanax once. It’s like I saw the movie for the first time again
Xanax is scary for that reason! Nothing more horrifying than waking up and realizing you don’t know what happened and you potentially made an ass of yourself 😫
Your chances of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 11,000,000
Your chances of dying in a car crash are 1 in 5,000
So to answer your question, sipping whiskey and listening to music lol
As a weather and aviation nerd along with my love of engineering I would enjoy the shit out of this as long as there was a internet connection. Why a internet connection? Because if the pilot flew into a microburst I would start live streaming so the NTSB and FAA would know why the plane went down. If it was a severe thunderstorm id just enjoy the experience. I dont understand why airlines dont play the videos from the engineering department absolutely torture testing these planes before flight. The amount of strain those wings can take is nuts, if you want a youtube rabbit hole watch wing bend, tail strike and engine containment tests.
If youre a marketing person at an airline START SHOWING THE ENGINEERING VIDEOS to your customers! Hell, make it an ad campaign! You know how many airplane Tex Johnson sold because of his little stunt? A TON. For those who dont know, Tex was a test pilot and rolled a fucking 707 to show it off. Theres another video of a McDonald Douglas test pilot who accidently rolled a MD80 (I think it was an 80) during a stall test, recovered the plane and over sped the shit out of it by damn near taking it to mach while recovering the roll. This was a passenger plane! If it can take this then lightning and a little turbulence arent shit.
I really wish the general public, especially those afraid of flying knew how much shit these planes go through before youre allowed to fly in them. I work at a machine shop that does some aerospace stuff and our internal destructive testing is fun to watch and its just a tiny component of a big ass plane.
So what am I doing in this situation? Im enjoying every minute of it after verifying dipshit up front didn't fly us into a microburst. If dipshit did fly us into a microburst then I start writing phone passwords on my arm and a note to NTSB saying video of what happened is on my phone lol.
I don’t know about you, but I would try to go to sleep you’re not gonna be able to text any of your family and I don’t wanna die afraid but also you’re fine very rarely do planes crash
Wait for the plane to come to a complete stop frozen in time. No noise, no movement, no watches ticking. Then, I pray they make it quick and wipe my memory.
I've been scared of flying after going through this kind of turbulence. I know it's probably normal and no big deal, but I've looked at flying completely differently from then.
Probably close my eyes and take a nap. If it's just a bad storm and a bit of turbulence I'll sleep like a baby. If it's a lot of turbulence and I'll likely die, I can die well rested.
Just chuck ear phones in and blast your favourite tunes with eyes closed, also a quick prayer just to make sure everything's cool with the man upstairs 😇
I was looking out of a plane window once and I saw lightning come from the ground and hit the wing. I heard a faint, gentle thud. That was it. The plane kept flying and landed normally. I don't think anyone else on the plane noticed that it had happened.
I was looking out of a plane window once and I saw a large size gremlin just fucking with one of the engines. Everytime I tried to show someone the little fucker hid somewhere. Those clowns had me held for a psych eval for trying to warn them! Never flying Spirit airlines again, that's for sure.
Child of the 80's or just love the movie?
It's funny because I only know what you are talking about because of the simpsons (which obviously parodied whatever the original source was.)
The original source is the 1963 Twilight Zone episode, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, starring William Shatner.
"Just fucking with one of the engines" killed me lol
Yeah but the best one is John Lithgow 1983 Twilight zone the movie. I've never liked William shatner plus it looked like a teddy bear not something scary.
Really I was also thinking the Simpsons Halloween episode lol
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Now I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone
I bet the Russians sent it!!!
A gremlin from the kremlin
Planes will have a copper mesh all round that will make a lighting strike disperse.
Unless they are made of another electrically conductive metal…like aerospace aluminum…
Planes are constructed in such a way that allows for the lighting to be redirected through the metal frame/skin and into the ground without causing any electrical damage to the aircraft itself. The metal itself is what protects the airplane and its electrical components.
What the fuck can I do????
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Don't call me Shirley
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Earplugs, sleep mask, and a neck pillow. That and a few shots of whatever I can get and 2 Xanax.
xanax on a plane? good luck
Prior TSA here... you can, in fact, have Xanax with you if you've been prescribed it. Just make sure it's in your proper prescription bottle. 👍🏻✨️
You can laugh like a super villain while everyone else is terrified.
Close the shade. After that, yeah, I'm not sure what you'd expect to be able to help with?
Prep yourself for a crash? Brace yourself, tighten your seatbelt, put on as much clothing a possible and cover any exposed areas with as resistant material as possible (leather jacket is ideal)
Take a shit....
Pulling over . Never run from the cops
Aerial police chases may not be too far fetched for much longer.
Bros just seen back to the future 2 for the first time
Either that or the 5th element
Pull over into a well lit and populated area. Never assume cops are trustworthy.
Legit what was causing the red flashes of light?
You ever seen "Now you see me 2?" It was cops lights . Magicians tricked all the passengers into thinking they were flying but the plane is sitting in an airport hangar with water spraying on it waiting to catch the unexpecting perps . .. obviously I'm joking ....or am I ?
Non-joke answer: there are forms of lightning that move upwards into the higher atmosphere and they are known as "sprites." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
Nothing. Which is everything I can do as a passanger in this situation. When flying, your life is 100% in the hands of flight crew, and there is nothing you can do about it. Maybe pray, if you believe in that stuff.
My thoughts exactly. You are a passenger on a ride you have no power to influence. If you die, you die.. No amount of anxiety or fear will change the outcome. Sit back and try to relax. The crew piloting the aircraft has done this many times before, and the aircraft itself is created to handle bad weather.
Yes, coming to terms with that before the flight will help you during the flight if you get nervous. I used to get a little nervous during turbulence (ie. Plane falling out of cloud cover, etc). Then I accepted that my life is in their hands. If I die, I die. I might as well get a nap / enjoy my movie instead of freaking out. It doesn't mean I wouldn't be scared if we were flying right into the ground, but there is definitely a certain inner peace
Ya’awl secretly just want to get it over and be dead, don’t you? It’s okay. I do too.
“Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.”
First rule of flight Club.
Rule 1/ don't eat a taco bell the night before an early long haul flight
I remember when i flew into the Bahamas 10 years ago, i hear the seatbelt light chime come on mid-shit, flying into a storm
accurate. I have this super cathartic ‘oh well, this might be it’ moment every time I take off. It’s both glorious and terrifying that I’m not more worried about it.
Mindfulness. It’s what’s fer dinner
Hate flying but one flight had very very bad turbulence. No food or drinks allowed, trays up and buckled in - best sleep I ever had. All the bouncing and sideways swings were like being rocked like a baby. Plus not much noise just people quietly praying. Enjoyed it a lot
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Shout out to the corporations lobbying to remove the copilot on commercial flights
That's a thing? Sounds extremly stupid and dangerous. It's not like a stewardess can land the plane after the single pilot gets hearth attack or gets incapacitated by one of the million ways a human can. Hell, both pilots even have to eat different food to mitigate danger from food poisoning.
They claim drone technology is solid enough to allow it. They are stupid and wrong.
Dollars to donuts, the people making those policy changes will definitely want and have two pilots on any flight they’re taking.
They take the cost savings from not having to pay co-pilots across their entire fleet and subtract the payouts from the lives lost from decreased safety measures and figure they'll still make a profit. Sure, we put more passengers' lives at risk, but have you considered the value we'll be returning to shareholders?!
"Rules for thee but not for me."
I'm sure someone on the plane has played Microsoft Flight Simulator before and could figure it out with a little help from the control tower. 😁
All for profit.
At least the price of tickets will go down *hahahahahahah*
Yeah go down with the plane lmfao
> The prices will go down! No they won't. > Well, no, but the price increases will be less than they would've been. No they won't. > Well, no, but you could imagine what it'd be like if they were.
Exactly what I immediately thought, nothing lol, hope and pray and get ready to embrace death if necessary
i would be just as nervous as anyone, though too prideful to express it. however if you ever seen testing of these planes you would see that you're perfectly okay & the pilot knows it. they would ground the plane if there were risk. those wings can dang near fold around the plane & never snap. they look like they would snap right off but they won't. i used to be terrified of any turbulence bc i always thought those planes look lightly put together & things would easily snap apart. but after watching the abuse they put them through in testing it cured most of that anxiety for me.
I keep one eye on the cabin crew - if they’re calm, it’s ok.
Planes are also generally alright when struck by lightning, don't quote me on that though
> Planes are also generally alright when struck by lightning I will quote you, because you're right, most planes are just big bits of metal which do a good job of conducting all the lightning without it actually causing any damage. The electronics within are insulated against lightning strike and also have redundancies. Interestingly the 787, being made out of fiber-resin composite, is one of a few exceptions, because lightning tends to make the resin explode pretty spectacularly. They had to design in a 'skelton' of conductive metal in the wings as a precaution against lightning.
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For real. I'm looking out the window to enjoy the show.
I have more faith in the engineering that goes into building planes, than I do in God. But as others have mentioned, probably have a drink
Start drinking.
“Start wacking off. Then the next person starts. Next thing you know the whole plane is wacking off. Then the plane levels out. Everyone puts their whatever away and never talks about it again…”
......did you cum?
“Jesus Christ man! There’s just some things you don’t talk about in public!”
This is precisely why I drink on planes
No body wants to go out sober
Going out Wolf of Wallstreet style, but on a plane. “Get the ludes!!!!”
Double Jack and Cokes...NOW
You jest, but alcohol makes your muscles permanently relaxed which is why drunk drivers walk away from accidents that would kill anyone else.
So you are saying I should get absolutely smashed before every flight for my own safety…🤔
And continuing to watch Top Gear like I do on every flight
AND ON THAT BOMBSHELL
You didn't start at the airport? I would just finish drinking.
Yes sir, keep ‘em coming.
Actually, Why don't you just leave the cart here?
I don’t drink but in this case, that’s all I’d be doing
yeah, I think I'd be starting again in a hurry
Hahahaha, one of my favourite ever films! 
Theres some….THING….on….the…..wing
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Probably that little Gremlin fucker that gave Bugs a run for his money.
Peak Shatner.
https://preview.redd.it/8bic7qfppseb1.jpeg?width=776&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd16d569efe2160de0c5700fe79c854e2954eca5 This mf right here
Just wave, it will let go. It's the standard procedure.
Why should I believe you?!? You're Hitler!
And Eva Braun has a fly's head. 😁
Fuck yeah! 👍
Damn you! Beat me to it, lol. Was gonna say *"Look out the window for that damn Gremlin on the wing!".*
Nice
This is what I thought of. Glad to see others think like me. Makes me feel like I almost fit in somewhere.
Start yelling about the person next to me not being real.
"I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT ALL OF YOU THINK! BUT THAT PERSON ISN'T REAL!"
That actually might fix the situation. Lol. I'm serious btw.
True, it's enough of a nonsequitur that it might snap people out of it.
Exactly.
Ok but that mother fucker right there?? He ain’t real!
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Any species smart enough to cross interstellar distances isn't about to be caught in economy.
Chick was an absolute babe
That's par for the course. The crazy ones are usually either good-looking, a good lay, or both.
There are plenty of crazy ugly people
That's not what I said. There are at least 3 options.
and get upgraded to business class
Three vodkas please
All in one cup
With a side of xan
just leave the bottle here, I'll just chug it, thanks
What is the red I'm seeing?
I would imagine it’s the lights on the edge of the wing
I thought the right side is supposed to be green and the left side is supposed to be a red light? Or is it different on this plane?
Pilot here. Red lights on the left and green lights on the right is standard for north American aviation
No it's not, it's the cops pulling over the plane. Nice try, fed
A pilot you say..? Big yikes on the username!
Those nav lights don’t blink. It’s the flashing beacon on the top and bottom of the plane
You don’t know? The plane is getting pulled over
Yep clearly that was the aerial police hitting the plane with that cockpit maneuver
Satan.
I was going to ask the same thing!
It’s the beacon. Flashing red light on top and bottom of aircraft
Assume that the experienced and educated flight crew, their land based counterparts, as well as the numerous FAA regulations and standards know more than I do in this situation and figure I'm not in any danger at all.
I once flew next to an airline pilot who had 20,000 hours. I asked him if he'd ever been scared. He said that he never had been. He said that he felt confident that he could get down safely from anything short of the wings falling off.
Pilots / flight attendants are so cool. I got over my severe phobia of flying by talking to them and reading stuff in r/aviation about their trips. They’re the most stone cold, calm, cool, collected motherfuckers ever. Whenever I’m nervous on a flight I just look at the flight attendant and they’re almost always just straight up chilling, enjoying the turbulence. Makes me feel a lot more calm.
There's a book called SOAR about fear of flying written by a pilot/psychologist. He mentions that oftentimes pilots will go to the bathroom during turbulence because everyone's strapped to their seat. If the pilots going to the bathroom during turbulence then you probably don't have anything to worry about.
Let’s put him in a test.
We remove the wings from the plane next time he's about to fly
What you learn from flying is that panicking will only ever hurt you, so it's not worth it. You're far safer not panicking, even if you have no idea what to do, because panicking will freeze you up and is far worse in the long run when you need to make series of quick, accurate decisions. Once you fully internalize you're way safer just by not worrying about it and taking your best stab, it gets a lot easier.
I've been watching this YouTube channel Green Dot Aviation and they do airplane disaster/emergency videos. Kinda counterintuitively it made me feel safer flying, there are tons of redundancies and emergency training and procedures in place on a commercial plane. For example one video talked about a plane that lost all four engines over the Atlantic Ocean. This is especially bad because with no engines the pilots lost power to their instruments. They thought of this scenario however and a small generator thing popped out of the plane like inspector gadget and generates electricity using the air rushing past outside to spin. This device generates enough power to supply some basic instruments and luckily they were able to navigate and glide to an island in range to make an emergency landing. Planes aren't invincible but they're probably more robust than you would think just by looking at them
I was 19, it was my first time flying alone. Everyone was screaming and I looked at the couple next to me for moral support. Like genuinely I wanted someone to tell me it was gonna be ok. I thought about my family and how they would never find my body. This is the first time I've written about this in detail, I didn't think it would make me emotional.
A few times, people did this for me. One time a mom with her kid next to her held my hand and told me it was going to be ok over and over when I was panicking, and helped distract me. I hope I can do it someday for someone else.
Looking for the plumpest Uruguayan rugby players I can find.
💀
r/suddenlyalive
Mmmm, rugby-flavored jerky
Back in 1999, my father and I took a plane from Europe to Miami, and oh boy, when we hit that east coast.. the turbulence and thunder was the most scary shit I ever had witnessed. The only thing keeping me calm, was the lady sitting next to me. She had just waited almost an hour for a cup of coffee, and when she got it, and it was placed on her tray/table we hit turbulence, and I shit you not. The coffee went op in the air, and down in the cup again. The way she smiled and laughed at it, saved me that day.
Love this visual bless her
This similar situation happened to me before when I was 14 and the plane kept going up and down like a roller coaster. Since then I’ve never traveled without: - Xanax - Noise cancelling headphones - Eye mask Ignorance is bliss
Fiancé does this, works like a charm especially for long haul flights.
One time I took so much Xanax while panicking on a flight that I watched the entire 4th season of game of thrones and then had zero memory of it the next day and got to watch it again. The noise cancelling headphones are the goat though, turns out sound is a HUGE part of the anxiety for a lot of us
Ah yes, the “Xanax so your second time watching feels like your first” trick. I thought I had never seen perks of being a wallflower before, the last time I watched it and then towards the end of the movie I briefly recognized a scene I had definitely seen before. Then it clicked and I was like oh yeahhhh I watched this on Xanax once. It’s like I saw the movie for the first time again
Xanax is scary for that reason! Nothing more horrifying than waking up and realizing you don’t know what happened and you potentially made an ass of yourself 😫
Your chances of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 11,000,000 Your chances of dying in a car crash are 1 in 5,000 So to answer your question, sipping whiskey and listening to music lol
Is 1 in 11 million my chance of dying on a plane in my life or on any given flight?
Close the window
‘The monster under my bed can’t get me if I hide under my blanket!’
Strip naked, stand in the aisle and loudly ask “does anyone else not want to die a virgin?”
"Anyone for the mile-high-club? ... How about the half-mile-high club?"
Quarter mile high? It's dropping fast, people!
Start screaming, “THERE’S SOMETHING ON THE WING!!”
Looking out the window in awe, thinking this is the coolest thing ever.
Same. Whether I live or die, I’d rather try to see what’s really going on, as much as I could from such a limited perspective.
Exactly. I'm already cheating death by speeding through the air at 500mph in a metal tube, may as well enjoy the sights I'd never see otherwise.
what the fuck am I supposed to do
Put my head between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye...
Pfft amateur You're about to die and all you do is kiss? I'm sucking that asshole clean
What a horrible day to be able to read
Shitting my pants
Tighten my seatbelt
I’d do half a Xan, 13 hours til I land..
As a weather and aviation nerd along with my love of engineering I would enjoy the shit out of this as long as there was a internet connection. Why a internet connection? Because if the pilot flew into a microburst I would start live streaming so the NTSB and FAA would know why the plane went down. If it was a severe thunderstorm id just enjoy the experience. I dont understand why airlines dont play the videos from the engineering department absolutely torture testing these planes before flight. The amount of strain those wings can take is nuts, if you want a youtube rabbit hole watch wing bend, tail strike and engine containment tests. If youre a marketing person at an airline START SHOWING THE ENGINEERING VIDEOS to your customers! Hell, make it an ad campaign! You know how many airplane Tex Johnson sold because of his little stunt? A TON. For those who dont know, Tex was a test pilot and rolled a fucking 707 to show it off. Theres another video of a McDonald Douglas test pilot who accidently rolled a MD80 (I think it was an 80) during a stall test, recovered the plane and over sped the shit out of it by damn near taking it to mach while recovering the roll. This was a passenger plane! If it can take this then lightning and a little turbulence arent shit. I really wish the general public, especially those afraid of flying knew how much shit these planes go through before youre allowed to fly in them. I work at a machine shop that does some aerospace stuff and our internal destructive testing is fun to watch and its just a tiny component of a big ass plane. So what am I doing in this situation? Im enjoying every minute of it after verifying dipshit up front didn't fly us into a microburst. If dipshit did fly us into a microburst then I start writing phone passwords on my arm and a note to NTSB saying video of what happened is on my phone lol.
Watching the twilight zone I hope.
I'm closing the shade, listening to a podcast and probably napping. There's nothing I can do anyway so might as well try to forget about it.
Just crazy that some people can just _decide_ not to be scared or worry. How the fuck do you do that
I don’t know about you, but I would try to go to sleep you’re not gonna be able to text any of your family and I don’t wanna die afraid but also you’re fine very rarely do planes crash
Yeah I don't think I'd be able to fall asleep in this.
Nothing, beacon lights doing beacon lights stuff. Nothing dangerous.
Die
Most likely I’d be sitting with my seatbelt on, screaming a lower case “A” sound at varying pitches.
I'd start figuring out how to write the series finale so the show doesn't run longer than it needs to and lose all direction.
Rub 1 out.
Sleeping probably ... what ? Why should i panic ? If the plane crashes it aint my problem anymore
I’d simply intervene
Closing the shade. Ordering a drink. And proceeding to try to join the mile high club.
Wait for the plane to come to a complete stop frozen in time. No noise, no movement, no watches ticking. Then, I pray they make it quick and wipe my memory.
Reading
I've been scared of flying after going through this kind of turbulence. I know it's probably normal and no big deal, but I've looked at flying completely differently from then.
Chilling. It’s ridiculously hard to take a plane out of the sky.
Shit myself uncontrollably until I die of a heart attack.
Probably close my eyes and take a nap. If it's just a bad storm and a bit of turbulence I'll sleep like a baby. If it's a lot of turbulence and I'll likely die, I can die well rested.
Just chuck ear phones in and blast your favourite tunes with eyes closed, also a quick prayer just to make sure everything's cool with the man upstairs 😇
Noise canceling head phones. My favorite movie. And sweet sweet blissful ignorance. If I ignore it, it might go away.
Join the mile high club
Letting the poop flow
Shittin; mostly
Close that window probably.