http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/topic/2104/t/Flying---days--need-reassurance--Delta--MD-88s-.html en-us Copyright 2006, Kickapps feeds@kickapps.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@kickapps.com (WebMaster) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:18:01 GMT Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:17:06 GMT Kickapps Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://kickapps.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://kickapps.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://kickapps.com/search/direct/ http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/reply/7444/t/Flying---days--need-reassurance--Delta--MD-88s-.html#reply-7444 Jen and Double E --

Capt. Tom is right. I flew the MD-80 series (of which the MD-88 is one) off and on for many years. And -- now that I'm retired from AA -- I STILL ride them as a passenger. With no qualms at all.

You can look at safety "listings" all you want. But as far as I'm concerned, as a practical matter, those are meaningless. When you're talking about a one-in-a-million (for example) versus a one-in-ten-million chance of getting killed in an airliner, the former would appear to be ten times as dangerous.

But in BOTH cases, your chances of coming to grief are, practically speaking, Zero.

Which is why I take airline and airliner safety statistics with a grain of salt. Sure, there's ALWAYS a chance of being killed in an an airplane crash. But, the chances of that are SO remote that it's not worth enduring any sleepless nights over.

Back to the MD-80. It's been in service since the early... ]]> feeds@kickapps.com (Capn Steve) http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/sreply/7444 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:17:05 PST http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/reply/7442/t/Flying---days--need-reassurance--Delta--MD-88s-.html#reply-7442 feeds@kickapps.com (Capt Tom Bunn MSW LCSW) http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/sreply/7442 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:34:08 PST http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/reply/7441/t/Flying---days--need-reassurance--Delta--MD-88s-.html#reply-7441 feeds@kickapps.com (DoubleE) http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/sreply/7441 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:45:25 PST http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/topic/2104/t/Flying---days--need-reassurance--Delta--MD-88s-.html
I have viewed all of the videos and have been tying to practice the strengthening exercises. I have also been trying to get safety info to reassure the "left brain" side of me. But, I'm not sure that was a good call - maybe ignorance is bliss!! We are flying Hartford to Orlando on a Delta MD 88 and I have to admit when I saw Capt Tom's listing of engine/airplane safety, which puts the MD 88 pretty low on the list, I think just before some Russian made planes, I kind of freaked. It seems the "third generation" planes are more safe and the MD 88s are getting pretty old. The recent FAA scrutiny of the AA MD 80s doesn't help my state of mind.

I also saw on a post here that Delta has been contracting out more of its maintenance, even out of the US.

So, can some of you reassure me about Delta and the MD 88s? I need to feel more confident about putting myself and my 4 year old daughter on this plane!!

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