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Noley
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 Posted: 08/11/06 - 20:34 Post subject: Poll not poll...traveling right now
Are you worried about traveling on airplanes right now with the terrorist plots we're learning about?
I am.
I know two different people making cross country flights this weekend and it's got me worried sick. I should know better and not get worked up. I do anyway. I'll feel better on Saturday/Sunday when they both get home and where they belong.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 21:00 Post subject: Re: Poll not poll...traveling right now
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 21:09 Post subject:
I would be worried sick if anyone I knew was flying in the near future. I don't think anything would happen. But nobody ever does I guess. 
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RangerG
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 21:31 Post subject:
I would still fly. Heck..I have flown in a helicopter that was taking small arms fire...
And if some nut jumps up with something in his hand and I even think it is a weapon or device....I am not waiting to act.
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 21:32 Post subject:
Only reason I'm not worried is because we won't be getting on a plane anytime soon.
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Noley
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 00:20 Post subject:
I'm worried sick.
I had a hard time flying after 9-11. My ex was in Florida at the time and the only way he got back home to SC was by rental car. I was very glad he didn't fly at that time.
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bburgoyne26
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 00:36 Post subject:
I'm not worried, but I know the lines will be a hassle...my GF is flying to DC Thursday.......
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 06:37 Post subject:
in the last 3 weeks my husband has flown from pgh to phila to frankfurt to phila to pgh....pgh to chicago to beijing and i just got an email telling me he just boarded the 747 in beijing for chicago. (it's 13 hours in the air) i guess they're letting electronics on for now.
he leaves for india in december. i'm sayin' that one is gonna be iffy.
he will be logging alot of air miles this year with a new position he took. we just don't even "go there" as far as the what ifs go... a plane in pitts recently had the nosegear "fall off" when it backed away from the gate. had this happened when it was going down the runway, it would have been horrible, so anything can happen anywhwere.
truthfully, i hate flying. always have probably always will now. i hate what people drag onto planes and i'd love it if the airlines would disallow all carry on CRAP from now on...except blackberrys! 
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Soigneur
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 07:05 Post subject:
My husband is flying home from Perth, Australia next week. Its about a 7 hour flight. No, neither of us are worried, but then its not a high risk destination either.
I figure if your times up your times up. Plus, you have to be pretty unlucky. I was amazed at the number of people who phoned me after the London bombings to see if my mother and brother were ok. There are a gazillion million people in London - it never occurred to me that they wouldn't be ok  .
But you can't take your electronics on flights to the US from here, or much else for that matter  .
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Cappy
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 07:44 Post subject:
I'd be more upset at the delays et al at the airport check points. Its because of these whack jobs that we have to be so guarded at the airports.
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brie k
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 09:40 Post subject:
9/11 really didn't make me hate flying. Once I became a mom I think it flying no longer appealed to me. Not even sure why, either. Used to fly a lot when I was a kid; went back and forth between mom & dad every summer and Christmas. Loved it then. Would hate doing it now.
Dad brought up the idea of flying the kids to Charlotte instead of Kramer coming to get them and then driving them there. I know parents do this, but I just don't like that idea at all. Regardless of what is happening today. I know that the odds are greater of an accident in a vehicle, but in my mind, you have a better chance of someone walking away in a car crash than you do in a plane crash.
It is a scary world in which we live. Accidents happen all the time. Cars wreck, planes crash. Kids kill kids at school. We just get out there and do what we have to do and hope for the best I guess.
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akern
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 09:49 Post subject:
I don't fly alot and neither does anyone in my family. But it really wouldn't deter me anyway. You could just as easily get killed entering the highway. 
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jrjo
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 09:58 Post subject:
Without even clicking PH's link, I know how the statistics are/work.
It's simple logic and just unfounded anxiety to worry about flying. It's like the lottery. Your odds of being completely safe are about the same as not winning the lottery, it's virtually guaranteed.
Your odds are much greater of getting in an auto accident, bicycle accident (even more so, some of you..ha), or getting squished by a bus out on a run.
Really, just get your Spock-logic on and don't worry!! 
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 10:06 Post subject:
Retrievers. Don't. Fly.
Never have, and never will - the first time I get a plane will be the last as that plane will go down.
LC and our son fly - and he's flown a couple times outside the country. She's not wild about the experience in general, but she'll do it. I can't.
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genie
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Posted: 08/12/06 - 10:42 Post subject:
No, I figure there are enough things for me to worry about that have a greater chance of happening, or that I have some control over anyway.
I hate the hassle flying has become far more than I worry about the actual flight. I'm used to flying and that part never bothered me, but all the BS getting there really drives me batty.
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