What A Plane Crash Feels Like

Are you afraid of flying? Are you the type of person who grabs the hand of the passenger next to you, terrified that within ten seconds of flight the aircraft will explode and plummet to earth in a blazing fireball? Your fears makes sense, even though it's largely irrational. In the past decade, the death risk for passengers in the US has been one in 45 million flights, which means you could fly everyday for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash. 
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America has a deeply complex relationship with commercial aviation. We invented the airplane in this country, and we've made countless heroes of various pilots and aviators. But we're never really sure what goes on in the cockpit, are we? Are pilots up there on red alert, saving our lives while we complain about the beef strogan off? or are the playing candy crush the whole time? considering the amount of deadly train crashes caused by engineers texting and playing cell phone games, it makes sense to at least ask the question: what's going on in the cockpit during a deadly crash? 

I THINK I'D PROBABLY FREAK OUT IF I WAS IN THE COCKPIT- 
yeah, if you were actually sitting in the cockpit, you wouldn't be doing what they're doing, because you're not a trained professional dealing with a problem. All of us get in emergencies, I've been in a few car accidents, for example if you are lucky you deal with it well. 

The Classical period of Airline Disasters? 
That's right, it's sort of a flip way to think about it, but you know what, in a commercial sense, this is a business, they're here to make money and yet for aviation, safety is good business in a way it's not in other industries. It's impossible to cut corners to make few extra bucks that's something that doesn't surprise me necessarily, but it hadn't occurred to me in that way.  
When i think of corporate culture, i think of something different than that. It's very heartening to realize that. other industries are following that example, and more and more, this will come to the fore as our species develops.  
It's surprising to me that giant corporations think in that way, but it's in their interest to operate live. 

Are you still afraid of flying? 
Well, don't feel afraid-feel safer, now that i've been working on this, every time i board a plane i'm always checking how how many rows ahead or behind the exists are or making sure there isn't any garbage on the floor. The thing to remember is that when you're on a plane, you aren't a passenger you're crew. The world of commercial aviation doesn't think of you as impassive cargo. the think of you a member of the crew, flight attendants aren't there to serve you drinks and set you pillows. They're there to take care of you if something happens and part of that is teaching you how to be an active participant, that makes me feel safer.