Originally Posted by
ua1flyer
in over 12,000 flights, I have yet to be on a flight where the oxygen masks come down and have never been on a flight where someone was injured due to turbulence. Most of my most turbulent flights seemed to be in the 70's and 80's. That could be a coincidence, or a combination of my early years fear of flying or maybe over the years technology has improved in the pilot's ability to avoid it. I don't freak out about turbulence the way I used to. First of all, as most everyone knows on flyer talk, planes are built to withstand it and second I have faith in the pilots ability to keep us out of harms way.
I'm the same way - not a nervous flyer at all (unlike my mother). On the flight I mentioned, I think I was the only person out of his seat when the turbulence occurred, but even though I was the one who went airborne, I was joking as I crawled back to my seat, while almost everyone else was freaking out.
Once I got back to 2F and things smoothed out, I did ring the call button for a stiff cocktail! lol