Originally Posted by
inthemix
Reading these posts about people concerned about flying through NRT make me wonder if I am the crazy one.
We will be in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Kanazawa, etc) for 20 days in May and I don't worry much about it at all.
So who is crazy, me or the people worrying about stopping through NRT?
i dont think your crazy....if you were not informed about nuclear tests and other incidents round the world, you would just do business as usual.... the fact that the media reports the issue (and most likely with some spices), makes me want to dig a pit and stay there for the next 20 years and not come out.
this is the bigger question i want to ask......... great we are all avoiding NRT airport, but many TPAC flights lurk around Tokyo airspace to join the jetstream (which is like a eastbound highway).
if i understand with my amateur research (from all the news i have watched)... those radioactive gases/particles are released into the atmosphere and travel along the jetstream too........... with fresh air constantly being replaced in an aircraft.... those travelling off Tokyo area and the jet stream to North America end up taking in radioactive particles into the cabin
isnt this sort of correct? i want to see what others think?