Though it was disappointing to read later that most of the scenes were simulated and shot in a studio, yet the images lingered. I decided that air travel was the most dangerous form of transport and vowed to keep away from it as far as possible. Little did I know then that I would be joining the aviation industry later and dealing with the safety and security aspects associated with air travel. An ironical twist of fate, indeed. Now, I can confidently aver that air travel is the safest mode of transport.
Statistics show that more people die every year in road, bus or train accidents than in air.
Though accidents do occur on flight and people do lose lives, most of the time it is owing to the human factor involved. To make travelling by air safer, the airlines constantly endeavour to upgrade the safety and security measures. Though safety and security are two distinct fields, in the aviation industry they tend to merge somewhere. It requires tremendous effort on the part of the airline security personnel and other aviation security agencies to achieve a fine balance between them. Thus, if security is compromised, flight safety gets threatened as well.