Isis_Romero's Blog

I've been on flights that have been scary. Bad turbulence, mechanical problems, a man had a heart attack. It seems it happens all too often.
I used to love to fly but not anymore. It's a chore and a bother. I'll stick close to home or I'll drive to my destination.
I'm glad you're ok, btw.

I can understand your hesitance. I used to be a "white knuckle" flier myself. It would usually take approximately 5 or 6 gin and tonics just to get me to the gate. In the years since, I have flown much more, and now I occasionally drink a nice, dark Guiness for pleasure instead of necessity. I commend you for your fortitude in your trying flight, and hope this is your only brush with flight problems. My worst was a near miss with a private plane as we were landing at Charlotte (NC). We were moving towards the runway, and all of a sudden the flaps moved, the gear came back up and we went into a hard right banked turn. As the plane came around we saw the small plane where we "could" have been. It took several shots to get me on my connecting flight after that.

Since then (knocking on my head), nothing else.

Maybe we should put State Employees in the airports for back-up if the budget doesn't go through....wait....nevermind.

The last time I flew was 2 yrs ago,Phoenix to Kentucky,one stop Cleveland,OH,what was supposed to be a 30 min.flight turned into a 2 hr nitghtmare.That was the about the time the landing gear didn't come down on the plane,forget now the state.Long story short Cleveland to Nashville,we were coming in for the landing next thing I know we are going back up dumb me I love the window seats.We circled went down again came back up.The flight attendant tells us not to be nervous but we might have to go over the crash material.Which she came back out a few minutes later to tell us the landing gear wasn't coming down and they were going to TRY to manually get it down.

I am so scared for our daughter and grandaughter to fly home to Indiana for a visit.Praying the planes are checked good and they have good weather.With the cut backs are the saftey guidelines still in tack?People lives are on the lines as theirs are too!

Really its another affect of fuel cost. That proce goes up, they skimp on other things, and unfortunatley, safety appears to be next....

Isis, last night Linda announced breaking news at 10PM regarding yet another emergency landing at PHX. It was a Continental flight. It was reported/filmed briefly by Rick Crabbs in SkyFox. Today I cannot find any reference to the story here or on other news sites. Did this turn out to be a false alarm or yet another reason we should all be nervous fliers these days???

Ouch, this is getting scary!

Thanks for the reply Isis.