[tessalu]

If airplanes come apart like they are trying to tell us, we should all quit flying. I am .

[Joe Hadenuf]

If airplanes come apart like they are trying to tell us, we should all quit flying. I am .

I agree. The events of the past few years and more recent events, have dramatically reduce my desire to fly anywhere.

[Dan Day]

If airplanes come apart like they are trying to tell us, we should all quit flying. I am .

You can stop flying if you want, but most of the rest of "we all" know how to actually put this in perspective.

If this was an accident due to a defect or an unusual combination of atmospheric conditions, it was a freak occurrence, unlikely to happen again on any plane you might be on even if you spent every hour of your life for the next hundred years on a plane.

Planes crashed in the past, this one crashed now, more will crash in the future, but you're still more likely to win the lottery than die on an airliner crash.

And if you drive instead, you're far more likely to die on the road. 40,000 people a year die in car accidents, are you going to stay out of cars?

The next time I need to travel somewhere, I'm taking a plane, and I'm not going to worry about it one bit. I'm more likely to die of heart failure watching TV than from a plane crash, even taking the recent crash into account.