If

“If we knew each other’s secrets, what comfort we would find.”
— John Churton Collins

I bring this up because I have to get on a plane in a few weeks. But I hate to fly. It wasn’t always this way.

I was on a flight from Calgary home to Winnipeg when the plane, unbeknownst to all aboard, made what they call a TCAS Avoidance Manoeuvre and in the process screwed it up, and the aircraft dropped several hundred feet sending the food cart and meals and everyone’s belongings flying about the cabin like  dust in the wind. Including all the people standing at the back of the plane.

The plane shuddered, people were injured and even the flight attendants looked terrified. At the time I was a very frequent flyer and I knew this was not normal airplane behaviour! I really thought I was going to die.  After several minutes the pilots let everyone know what had happened – sorta.

I eventually got the TSB Report and what it contained stunned me more that the initial incident.  So now for a whole bunch of these reasons I hate to fly. I kept this pretty quite at my last job because the position required that I had to travel throughout the US.  But one day a colleague confided that she too hated flying.

So, the secret was out! And it was great!

If you’re flying to Vancouver in July let me know :-), I’ll share another secret with you!!!