Nov
Have you ever met someone who is afraid of flying? Me neither.
Through my short life, I have known people who is afraid of roaches, dwarfs, the nuclear holocaust but no one who is afraid of flying. Eno’s Music For Airports, pretty flight attendants serving peanuts and airplane’s instructional videos, in which air catastrophes are represented as quiet and relaxed experiences, had helped us forget the already improbable risks of flying. However, during my last trip, I couldn’t stop thinking a little bit about the plane crash occurred in Mexico City a few weeks ago.
Fortunately, the conception of “improbable” was capable of providing me some calm. But, what does “improbable” means? In a general and non-numerical sense it means that in a long series of specific events, a particular one has very small chances of happening. That leads us to the next question: are plane crashes something unlikely to happen? It looks like. Your chances are one to millions (depending on the airline and varying from 1 to 11 million).
So if you didn’t have a car accident while driving to the airport and defeated the risk of choking with that tasteless croissant at the airport, feel safe, you have already overcome the highest risks of traveling by plane. Now you just need to worry about a potentially deep-vein thrombosis caused by the lack of movement.
