Hunched over, it felt as if I was about to spit out my heart and watch it roll unto the floor.

To be honest I've never felt comfortable flying, there's something about being tens of thousands of feet in the air and relying on jet fuelled engines, which doesn't sit well with me. I've had to replace my toaster 3 times in two years, if humans can't make a reliable home appliance to toast bread; what are the chances that something infinitely more complex, like a jet engine, could malfunction?

I don't have the exact numbers, but I'd imagine it would be a lot higher in extreme turbulence, and that's exactly where I found myself on flight JAQ517. The plane just took a beating as the winds assaulted the craft from every angle. Over-head luggage spilled out of the compartments and onto passengers, the emergency lighting tinged the whole plane in a despair inducing red glow. I felt like I was in one of those air crash investigation re-enactments on TV, but mine was actually real, and with way worse sound and lighting production...

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