r/fearofflying•
kakoopman

Stories Where Everything Turned Out Okay!

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I'm a nervous flyer and my addiction to aviation disaster video essay YouTube channels isn't helping, but I would love to hear about some more stories of things going wrong where it all still turned out just fine! I'm talking your Gimli Gliders, your British Airways Flight 9, or even just personal anecdotes from pilots about why flying isn't scary actually.

Also, if any of these stories have technical documentation, reports, articles or essays, etc., please feel free to share them! I teach a class that deals with systems failures and accidents that has a couple of crashes as examples, and I would love some counterexamples to share with my students.

Posted Jul 3, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

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