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Anybody else have this irrational fear when flying that one of the engines / wings is just gonna fall off?
One of the engines not so much because I know planes are designed to handle losing an engine. Thinking about a wing falling off? Yeah, especially if I'm sat over a wing by a window I'll just look at it wobbling and think "what if this is the number of wobbles it takes to come off?", especially on long OS flights over the ocean.. but I try to distract myself from thinking about it for too long.
Nah dude... I'm all about that engineered redundancy.
No. Take off and landing is usually when the bad shit happens.
I'm pretty nervous then too. Oddly, turbulence doesn't worry me at all, it's just sailing on air waves in the sky, like sailing in a boat on the sea.
same i find turbulence fun
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always https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4j8_oMlelE
i have an irrational fear that someone would open the door
You'd need to be Superman to do it. There's a lot more air per cubic meter inside the cabin than outside. And the doors open inward initially.
So, you'd need to be strong enough to squeeze all the air inside the cabin and single-handedly increase the cabin pressure in order to open the door.