Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The reason I will NOT Fly....

Statistics DONT make me feel any safer. I could be tha 1 person....

A Russian passenger jet with at least 170 people aboard crashed in Ukraine on Tuesday after sending a distress signal, emergency officials said. The Pulkovo airlines Tupolev 154, en route from the Russian Black Sea resort of Anapa to St. Petersburg, disappeared from radar screens over Ukraine about 2:30 p.m., officials said.

spokesman, Lewis Igor Krol as saying a fire broke out on the plane at 32,800 feet and that the crew decided to try to make an emergency landing. However, it also quoted Russian aviation official Alexander Neradko as saying that the plane might have run into strong turbulence

Russian Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andriyanova said 30 bodies had been found. She said there were 171 people aboard: 160 passengers, including six children, and 11 crew members. Ukrainian officials said there were 160 passengers and 10 crew members on board. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained
Complet Story Here

Check out the statistics That i Googled:
1]You have more chances of dying on your way to the airport rather than onboard the aircraft
2]Your chances of dying in a plane crash are about 11 million .
On the other hand
your chances of being killed in a car accident are one in a 5000
Since Feb. 2, 1998, no fewer than 12 fatal air crashes have shattered lives around the world. Airlines from the United States, China, India, Kenya, Egypt, Thailand, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Philippines -- and now France -- have lost a combined total of 1,465 passengers and crew. Fifteen additional lives were lost on the ground.
History of Aircraft crashs dating back to 1921

I know USA is hated on from all religons but i never knew to such a heavy extent.
Here are some of the terrible attacks within the united states or against Americans.
The first attact was dated way back in September 16, 1920
Attacks Towards United States Of America

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