Samantha is a young professional who has a fear of flying. She will go to many lengths to avoid getting onto a plane. However she’s been forced to book a flight to her best friend’s interstate wedding in a couple of weekend’s time.
She hasn’t been able to secure time off work to justify an overland journey, and besides--it’s a three hour flight, or days by bus/train/car. She’ll only be able to make it if she flies.
However her fear of flying is very real, fuelled by television shows like ‘crash site investigation’ and also pictures of gutted, burnt out airplanes that appear every so often in the news, following a major crash.
As the date of the wedding draws near, she’s becoming more and more anxious, and has even considered telling her best friend she won’t be able to make her ‘big day.’
Is there a way around cancelling? Have you ever had a fear of flying, or some other kind of fear? How did you overcome it?
Comments (1)
Hi
If there's something that jumps out at me about this account it's the words 'crash site investigation'. As a retired British Airways training pilot I can assure you that these wretched programs do not tell the truth.
The number of people who visit my fear of flying site and tell me that they get upset by these programs is staggering.
Please make a promise to yourself that you will avoid watching this stuff...it's made to scare...not inform...although it pretends to.
It's a fact that human beings distort the facts about risk. In the UK health service more people die of cross infection in one year than five years of worldwide commercial aviation.
That's one national health service...not through out the world.
Posted by Keith | August 12, 2007 8:28 PM
Posted on August 12, 2007 20:28