Just a few days ago I was watching a National Geographic
program about Airline crash investigations.
Even though I have been a private pilot and owned several
plans, this TV special scared the H out of me.
It was amazing how they recover most all of the pieces,
even from the sea floor, and put it all together.
There were total disasters caused by the simplest of
reasons, such as a short in the first class entertainment
system on an Air Canada? flight over the Atlantic.
It was a total loss, as the fire spread to the entire plane.
There were other examples of a simple valve failure throwing
the plane into violent uncontrollable rolls, crashing and killing all on board.
My last flights have been on Qatar Air A320s and A330s
between Vienna and Philippines.
No plans now to fly for quite some time.
That was Swiss Air flight 111.