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Gabita asked in TravelAir Travel · 2 months ago

Fearing planes?

I might travel by plane soon, it would be my first flight of my life but I am worried about my safety after reading stories on the Internet about passengers being locked asleep on planes. Is it really possible for this to happen?

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  • 2 months ago

    Planes are transports in the sky, basically. Also, similarly as exhausting, eventually. In any event they have motion pictures on longer flights.

  • 2 months ago

    That is extremely unlikely to happen.

  • Marvin
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    I never heard of that.  I am claustrophobic.  Then I took a job that included a LOT of travel to Asia and the Middle East. The doctor prescribed Temazepam. That did the trick.  Then I took a job in Singapore.  They do not prescribe psychotropics there, so I decided to drink to quarts of beer and that seemed to work.

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    Air Travel is safer then you walking down your own street

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  • 2 months ago

    EDIT TO ADD:Since I posted my reply I've looked at your profile and I see that almost all your questions are about sleep, how you can't sleep sometimes, how you can't wake up other times. If you have a real sleep disorder please get medical help.

    My original answer:

    Those people who got locked in on a plane because they were asleep and somehow didn't hear all the bustle and noise of everyone else getting off - they were perfectly SAFE on the plane, even if it was a big surprise when they woke up, and not where they wanted to be. Your safety is not an issue in these circumstances, in ANY way. You would get out your phone and call Emergencies, and you would be let out soon.

    In any case this kind of thing happens about once in a blue moon. Have you any idea how many millions of people fly every single day and have never even heard of getting accidentally locked in a plane?It happens on trains too, and buses. OK, it's inconvenient. But it's not DANGEROUS.

  • 2 months ago

    Every day, hundreds of thousands of people safely travel by plane with no problems. Yet, you have read some stories about a couple people who fell asleep and not waking up, and now you are worried about it happening to you?  Chances are, those people took sleeping meds. 

    Everyday, millions of people travel by car with no problem.  Some other people will be in auto accidents.  Are you scared of riding in a car because of a fear of being in an accident?  You are more likely to have something bad happen to you in the car on the way t the airport than you are to have anything happen on a plane. 

    You have tow brains, an intellectual one, and a "fish" brain.  The fish brain doesn't apply logic, rather, it obsesses over things that have a near-infeustismal chance of happening.  Your intellectual brain should lookout how rarely bad things happen, and be your guide.  Stop listening to the fish brain. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    Airplanes are buses in the sky, pretty much. And equally as boring, in the end. At least they have movies on longer flights.

  • 2 months ago

    These stories do have some basis in reality, but it's a totally extreme situation. You have a greater chance of dying in a car crash by a long, long way.

    There was a particular circumstance I saw on "Air crash investigations" (TV show), whereby the whole crew and passenger complement weren't breathing fresh air and so ended up in a coma. The airplane got caught in a seesawing motion of heading towards the ground, then rise again. The flaps would activate due to a combination of wind pressure and auto-pilot adjustment. Then they'd continue the cycle over and over until the airplane finally ran out of fuel. I wouldn't have thought this possible, but it really was quite detailed and explained sufficiently to be plausible.

    The air force was even called to scramble a couple of fighter jets to deal with the suspected terrorist threat and got a visual on the one barely functioning flight attendant. He had used oxygen outlets to make his way to the cabin.

    Anyhow, suffice to say the eventual crash really was awful and the stuff of nightmares. Yet the chance this can happen to any one airplane must be millions or even billions to one.

    Flight is considered to be a very safe means of transport and we only get to hear about the very worst possible scenarios.

  • pmt853
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    What do you mean by "locked asleep"? If you believe stuff just because you read "stories on the internet" then you're not going to have much of a life.

  • jijawm
    Lv 5
    2 months ago

    About as statistically possible that we'll be pooping rainbows with all the sunshine being blown into places where the moon don't. 

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