Flying is actually the safest way to travel nowadays apparently!
I'm not scared of flying, but I did have a scary moment when I was coming back from Dublin last year.... Coming back towards Stansted we flew through a big storm cloud... the turbulance was awesome, it was really really bumpy and us 8 lads thought it was pretty funny....... until there was a f**king great big
BANG!! and the cabin lights went out and our stomachs felt like they were up on the ceiling, there was loads of screaming and all us lads shut up...... after about 10-15 seconds the lights came back on and you could hear the engines starting back up again and that we was climbing again..... the Pilot spoke over the tanoy and said "Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen... you may have just heard a small bang... this was the plane being struck by lightning, which killed all the electrics and the engines, resulting in us falling out of the sky for a few hundred feet... we are now circling back round to try the desent again... we do apologies for the situation and will have you down on the ground safely as soon as possible!"......
45 mins later we touched down and everyone cheered.... never felt so relieved in my life!!
Chris
