If you aren't concerned about dying in a plane crash, you simply don't understand the gravity of the situation.
basically this. little scarier hearing a French plane crash then some third-world country's plane crashing. Who really knows if the plane was kept in the right shape in those places?
The one 14 year old girl who survived is lucky but I couldnt imagine how psychologically she is holding up for the rest of her life. Apparently she didnt feel a thing and swam to safety when the plane hit the water. But she lost her mother and was one of the only survivors out of 150 people.
last year I had to fly back from Port Gentil, Gabon. We were in an airplane that held 15 people (one of which was a good 400#, and had to be moved to the middle of the plane b/c they couldn't move enough baggage around to balance him out when he sat in the back), with grass growing across lines in the runway. It was pretty weird. But it's times like that that give me a bit of a rush, b/c it's either my time to go or a great story.
