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Air Travel Anxiety and Recent Landing Gear Crashes
from Bad Friends | The Tim Dillon Show #425 · #425
3 min
Discussion shifts to the danger of airplane landings versus cruising altitude, recent Boeing issues, and a friend's harrowing near-crash story flying Amsterdam to London.
- Tim doesn't understand why crash victims aren't immediately hiring lawyers instead of gathering in tents.
- Korean companies pay out crash settlements automatically because it's built into their culture, unlike American litigation.
- Air travel has gotten worse and Tim predicted it years ago.
- Landing gear failures and crashes have spiked recently, with two December 2024 incidents involving the same issue.
- Landing is actually the most dangerous part of the flight, not takeoff or cruising.
- Tim noticed pilots are visibly working and stressed during landing while they're relaxed during the rest of the flight.
- Tim experienced a terrifying 33-minute Amsterdam-to-London flight in a small jet that couldn't land and had to divert to Birmingham.
- The pilot told Tim that in 23 years of flying, very few landings had been worse than that one—pilots always downplay danger.
- Tim has done touch-and-go landings in Vegas, where high heat makes landing harder and requires immediate takeoff again.
- Tim hated the Vegas touch-and-go landing experience so much that passengers were immediately calling loved ones goodbye.
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