What's the Worst that Could Happen? (Commercial Flight Edition)
I
must confess that I have never been very comfortable with flying.
The last time I flew, in fact, was in the year 2005, I believe. So I’m (happily…) going on almost ten years since I boarded a commercial air-liner. I'd be happy to make it twenty.
Anyway, I don’t want to blame my aviatophobia on my mis-spent youth TV-watching, but there’s little doubt that cult-television, has, for decades, featured terrifying stories of flights imperiled, flights lost, and commercial air-liners crashed.
With that frightening thought in mind, here is a list of the seven cult-television commercial flights you hope you never end up queuing to board…
And yes, The Twilight Zone (1959 – 1964) features heavily on this list, since it re-visited the premise of doomed air-line flights fairly regularly.
7.Spartan Air Flight 602 (“Souls on Board,” The Others, 2000).
The short-lived The Others was a great horror series that should have gone on for many seasons, but one of its finest efforts was “Souls on Board.” …
The last time I flew, in fact, was in the year 2005, I believe. So I’m (happily…) going on almost ten years since I boarded a commercial air-liner. I'd be happy to make it twenty.
Anyway, I don’t want to blame my aviatophobia on my mis-spent youth TV-watching, but there’s little doubt that cult-television, has, for decades, featured terrifying stories of flights imperiled, flights lost, and commercial air-liners crashed.
With that frightening thought in mind, here is a list of the seven cult-television commercial flights you hope you never end up queuing to board…
And yes, The Twilight Zone (1959 – 1964) features heavily on this list, since it re-visited the premise of doomed air-line flights fairly regularly.
7.Spartan Air Flight 602 (“Souls on Board,” The Others, 2000).
The short-lived The Others was a great horror series that should have gone on for many seasons, but one of its finest efforts was “Souls on Board.” …
