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The 777 has been flying for 25 years with almost no fatal accidents. Unless your flight will be flying over Russian anti-aircraft missile batteries or through a wormhole above Malaysia, you should be perfectly safe.
Or also if your pilots have just finished their type rating and used to fly A320s. Hopefully they remember that you actually need to manage your throttle on a Boeing!
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>"AAAAAAAAAAAAA PLANE ON FIRE IN THE SKY, RUN!!!" I grew up about 5 miles from an airport and for many years I had a recurring dream that I was looking out the window at an airliner that looked odd somehow or other, until I realized with growing horror it was going to crash in the back yard. I never saw anything like it in real life, nor was it ever a concern for me whether I was in a flight path when deciding where…
The first Final Destination movie starts with a ground observer scene of about that distance of a plane crashing right after takeoff. I don't know whether your age fits, but maybe you saw this and recalled it in your sleep every so often.
Add that to the recurring dreams of losing all teeth, going to school only to realize there's a 20 page essay due, dinosaur attacks (inspired by Jurassic Park), and barely missing my school bus (that was just this morning).
Btw I'm 35 now.
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The 777 has been flying for 25 years with almost no fatal accidents. Unless your flight will be flying over Russian anti-aircraft missile batteries or through a wormhole above Malaysia, you should be perfectly safe.
Or also if your pilots have just finished their type rating and used to fly A320s. Hopefully they remember that you actually need to manage your throttle on a Boeing!
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The plane landed and didn’t blast enormous holes with ejected compressor blades. That’s a successful failure.
Is that what happenes when The fan blades fly off and hit the airplane?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380
Probably a dumb question, but why don't the pilots cut the fuel to the right engine after they know it's on fire?
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If anyone else is wondering what ZIMMR means in this context, it is a specific feature of the Denver airport: https://ja.flightaware.com/resources/airport/DEN/DP/ZIMMR+TW...
A specific location. Waypoints used in IFR approaches are given unique, 5-letter, usually pronounceable, names.
...aaaaaaand that's why i refuse to fly.