If I may ask, how often do you fly and what are your observations in the the passengers and crew members relationship? If you will agree with me, it could be compared to that of the patients,nurse and doctors relationship. When the doctors and the nurses smile and speak words of encouragement to the patient with smile and cheerfulness on their face, the patient tend to become more comfortable and hopeful even in critical situations in which the patient is seriously in pain, a good smile and word of encouragement could make the hospital room homely.
In like manner while a passenger is airborne, the countenance of the Cabin Crew and the tone in which announcement is made could send comfortable signals or embarrassing signals to passengers. At the beginning of a flight at take off, the safety measures when being announced remind all on board of the possibilities of a disaster but we all want to with optimism assume that they are mere formalities and that hopefully everything would go on fine. Such is the way the human mind operate in situations where necesities confine us to abide with conditions that are characterised by both positive and negative possibilities.
Flying is an unavoidable necessities as despite the announcement of an air disaster, people still rush to book for a place on the next available flight.
In as long as people do not wish to get involve in air disasters,the courage to take the risk is often motivated by the fact that there is no alternative.
In the book of Daniel chapter twelve, it is written by prophecy that in the time of the end knowledge shall be increased and people shall go to and fro. We without doubt in that era and man by neccesities will have to make do with the risk that accompany the products of the increase in the knowledge of science and technology.
An american professor who would not fly once argued against flying that if God had wish that we fly, He would have given us wings. With occasional air disasters occuring, we are still being assured that travelling by air is the safest and I might want to agree with this claim but then flying could sometimes be seen as one of the risk taken ventures that mankind ever embarked upon. If we have to move at the fast lane of life as the economic social factors demand, we can not avoid flying. No wonder at every safe landing as the plane touches the ground, passengers clap there hands in approval of the unified relief that accompany safe landing.
I always ask for whom is the applause? Could it be for the pilot and his crew for a good job done in flying the plane without disaster or just a reflex action motivated by the joy of safe landing? I would say the two combined is the answer. I am one of the introverts who would not express their joy and satisfaction by clapping but all the same I feel satisfy and appreciative of the good job done by the pilot and his crew but I always give the greater glory to God for granting us journey mercies.
