Piece of garbage article intended to scare people.
I got a chuckle out of that.
We lost an engine almost exactly half-way between Honolulu and Anchorage. It was either a DC-10 or 747. Terrifying at first, but we limped back to Hawaii, spent the night, and went home the next day.
“Pete’s Dragon” was the in-flight movie, and just starting when we heard the “boom!” and the plane shook. Forty years later if I hear the theme music, I’m in that plane again.
I was on an MD-88 Delta plane 2 months ago that had to return to the airport we just took off from (ATL). Smoke in the cabin...alarms going off and everything. No big deal, right? Those planes are an accident waiting to happen.
Exactly. I flew on MD-80s more times than I can remember and they were less cramped than whatever gawdawful thing I took from ATL to DFW recently. I had so little space on the window seat I couldn’t even reach between my legs or sit flat against the seat with my shoulders relaxed. I paid extra to upgrade on the way back.