I hear you. Irrational? Yes, but I'm in the same boat and feel the same irrational fear. I need to fly to South Carolina to see my mom. I need to fly Alaska so I can use miles for the ticket but they are "proudly all Boeing" once again, and I'll inevitably be on a -900 or -900ER. Chances of something happening are somewhere between slim and none, leaning heavily towards none, but I would really love to do that flight on an Airbus.
Another irrational fear situation that ended up setting off serious alarm bells in my head. I was on a flight about 2-3 or so years after 9/11 and am almost certain I was on a "test" flight for a certain terrorist organization. My wife picked up on it too, and we discussed what we would do. Flight Attendants were switched on too, and I could tell they were giving those guys extra attention. A lot of non-verbal communication between the crew when it came to these guys. They tried to congregate in the fwd and aft galley areas a couple of times and were quickly sent back to their seats.
Pretty much zero chance they were going to do anything, but I was not going to take any chances.
It was kind of chilling to be having in a meeting a month or so later with our Sales VP, and hear him share similar stories of what I saw through his conversations with Airline executives. Then a few months later I got pulled into a meeting at work to learn about a few other things they were doing to get a 9/11 v2.0. We were being approached to develop "countermeasures" for the things they were trying.
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