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[rdhdsnippet]

So... I fly slightly more than the average leisure traveler - probably six to eight times a year - though obviously less often than the road-warrior business traveler. I seem to be the only one I know who actually factors in how to avoid and (if that fails) survive a crash when doing my planning. I'm actually not in the least bit afraid of being in

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[rmd]

I don't count, but I do check where the exits are from where I'm sitting. I check the card in the seat pocket just to verify exit location, and most times I see them, I think of various parodies of those cards that I've seen.

I prefer nonstops because changing planes is a pain.

It bothers me that I can't carry a pocket knife on planes any more.

... well, that I'm not supposed to. The time I got busted for accidentally having a boxcutter in my laptop bag while going thru Logan, it turned out that there were something like 3 or 4 much smaller knives and cutting implements in my two bags.

oops. (that was definitely a "I'm glad to be a middle aged white woman, and thus harmless" moment)

[kaylaraine]

My last flight, I had multiple bottles of liquids that went through both DCA and MCO without a problem.

Back when I did fly

[drwex]

I did similar things. I dislike the back of the plane because it tends to be noisier and vibrate more, which contributed to airsick. I take exit row seats when I can.

(I stopped flying because the airlines have made the process so full of hassle and pain and cost as to be not worth it. Everything from the security crap to the fees-for-everything crap to the lousy service crap has turned me off of air travel. The train, by contrast, even has free wifi.)

[draakken]

I do all of what you mentioned. Plus count seat backs to my alternate exit.

Also consider as part of the natural fibers part of dressing, to wear long pants. More skin covered in a flash fire the better.

note a viable path to the exit is over the seat backs vs. down the isle. Getting out is the only thing that matters, there are no points for style.

I've been in a commercial airline accident, so this is not all simply theoretical as far as I'm concerned.

[vvalkyri]

I wear long pants and layers 'cause i'm always cold.

and apparently natural fibers entirely by accident.

[reedrover]

Ok, I have to ask: did you post this because of the news about the Colombian airliner? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10998821

The article says that, of 131 people on board, 130 survived. Many of them walked away from the 3 pieces of airplane strewn on the ground. "The only death was that of a woman, believed to have been 68, who suffered a heart attack on her way to hospital."

[rdhdsnippet]

Actually, no, I hadn't seen that! I came across an article about that crash a little while back where the only survivor was a 10 year old boy, which is what brought the entire topic to my mind.

[vvalkyri]

:makes mental note to start putting her shoes back on before landing rather than during taxi:

[beah]

I preferentially choose a seat near the front of the plane (in front of the wings, which is where I'd read most survivors of crashes are seated). I also always note where emergency exits are, whether I'm flying or seeing a movie. I nearly always read the safety brochure in the seat-back pocket. But that's about it.

My mother has a fear of drowning in her car if there were a bridge accident. For types like her, they make a little tool with a seatbelt cutter and a safety glass shatterer. I don't think she actually owns one, but it's interesting that they exist for nervous car travelers, but that there's no equivalent (that I know of) for nervous travelers via other modes.