I'm leaving on a jet plane in 45 minutes...

[TurtleCrusher]

How is southwest to fly on these days? What's the chance of dying in a plane crash? And the probability of?

Thanks in advance.

 

[jaedaliu]

100% chance of getting free beverages and peanuts.

 

[Sluggo]

About 99.3% chance of certain death.

Send me your valuables before you leave.

 

[skyking]

sluggo beat me to it.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

air travel is extremely safe. enjoy the downtime and the view.

 

[utahraptor]

If you decide the jet or staff seem sketchy after takeoff just start singing Whitney Houston songs and don't stop. Apparently they will have no choice except to make an emergency landing.

 

[brainhulk]

very little chance of death unless a bird get sucked up in the engines or the pitot tubes freeze or if all the hydraulic lines lost fluid or if it's a an airbus. Then death would be almost certain

 

[jaedaliu]

very little chance of death unless a bird get sucked up in the engines or the pitot tubes freeze or if all the hydraulic lines lost fluid or if it's a an airbus. Then death would be almost certain

He's flying Southwest. No Airbuses involved.

 

[nehalem256]

Bad news. No one has ever died in Southwest airlines plane crash. So they are probably due for one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines#Incidents_and_accidents

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Love you guys... You all always come through when I need it.

 

[BUTCH1]

very little chance of death unless a bird get sucked up in the engines or the pitot tubes freeze or if all the hydraulic lines lost fluid or if it's a an airbus. Then death would be almost certain

Airplanes have multiple redundant hydraulic systems and while bird strikes do happen it's extremely rare that both engines ingest a bird (although it can happen as it did in NY when Sully landed in the Hudson). OP, get there early so you can get a "A" boarding pass and get a good seat, if you go on as a "C" your gonna get stuck in the middle seat.

 

[_Rick_]

Dibs on your stuff.

 

[Platypus]

get some free drink coupons from the flight attendants for next time.

 

[AmdEmAll]

A good chance of a mechanical problem but a very very small chance of a crash. Also SW sucks.. enjoy the bus ride.

 

[techie81]

Airplanes have multiple redundant hydraulic systems and while bird strikes do happen it's extremely rare that both engines ingest a bird (although it can happen as it did in NY when Sully landed in the Hudson). OP, get there early so you can get a "A" boarding pass and get a good seat, if you go on as a "C" your gonna get stuck in the middle seat.

It goes by when you "check-in" not when you get there. You can check in 24 hours before your flight. When I did it 24 hours before I got a "B" level boarding pass.

A good chance of a mechanical problem but a very very small chance of a crash. Also SW sucks.. enjoy the bus ride.

Southwest was pretty awesome to me.

 

[Leymenaide]

Bad news. No one has ever died in Southwest airlines plane crash. So they are probably due for one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines#Incidents_and_accidents

About 5 years ago in a winter storm a Southwest plane ran off the end of the Midway runway and killed somebody in a car on the road outside the airport. I was landing at O'Hare at almost the same moment of this accident.

 

[Fritzo]

Ain't got no time to take a fast train?

 

[AmdEmAll]

It goes by when you "check-in" not when you get there. You can check in 24 hours before your flight. When I did it 24 hours before I got a "B" level boarding pass.



Southwest was pretty awesome to me.

I prefer real leather seats and good in flight entertainment screens on Jetblue or Virgin.. and I get first class on Delta usually.

 

[Mixolydian]

Where are you off to?

 

[Leymenaide]

December 08, 2005Time:19:15Location:Chicago, IllinoisOperator:Southwest AirlinesFlight #:1248Route:Baltimore, Maryland - Chicago, Illinois - Las Vegas, NevadaAC Type:Boeing B-737-7H4Registration:N471WNcn / ln:32471/1535Aboard:103 (passengers:98 crew:5)Fatalities:0 (passengers:0 crew:0)Ground:1Summary:The jetliner slid off Runway 13C at Chicago's Midway Airport, went through an airport boundary fence and crashed into two vehicles at a nearby intersection, killing a young 6- year-old boy. Heavy snow was falling at the time of the accident. The plane had circled the airport for 30 to 35 minutes before attempting to land. The pilots' failure to use available reverse thrust in a timely manner to safely slow or stop the airplane after landing, which resulted in a runway overrun. This failure occurred because the pilots' first experience and lack of familiarity with the airplane's autobrake system distracted them from thrust reverser usage during the challenging landing. Contributing to the accident were Southwest Airline's 1) failure to provide its pilots with clear and consistent guidance and training regarding company policies and procedures related to arrival landing distance calculations; 2) programming and design of its onboard performance computer, which did not present inherent assumptions in the program critical to pilot decision making; 3) plan to implement new autobrake procedures without a familiarization period; and 4) failure to include a margin of safety in the arrival assessment to account for operational uncertainties. Also contributing to the accident was the pilots' failure to divert to another airport given reports that included poor braking action and a tailwind component greater than 5 knots. Contributing to the severity of the accident was the absence of an engineering materials arresting system, which was needed because of the limited runway safety area beyond the departure end of runway 31C.

 

[rudder]

How is southwest to fly on these days? What's the chance of dying in a plane crash? And the probability of?

Thanks in advance.

If you selected one random flight per day to fly on.. it would take an average of 33,000+ years for you to get on one that would be involved in a fatal accident.

 

[bigrash]

Safe flight!

 

[lxskllr]

Do you know when you'll be back again?

 

[iamwiz82]

 

[jaedaliu]

I prefer real leather seats and good in flight entertainment screens on Jetblue or Virgin.. and I get first class on Delta usually.

wow, a 1%er.

I'm jelly.