A flight attendant has revealed that she is questioning her career after the various flight safety incidents in recent months.
The anonymous cabin crew member took to Reddit to ask for advice as she admitted she had concerns about her profession due to incidents surrounding ‘Boeing’ aircraft.
She noted that it ‘really scared’ her and made her ‘nervous’. The flight attendant – who is in her first year – referred to a spate of recent travel disasters involving Boeing planes, including the infamous moment when a door stopper blew out at 16,000 feet.
In a thread titled, ‘Flight attendants,’ the unnamed flight attendant asked people to help her decide whether or not to stop following the nine major Boeing plane safety incidents.
A flight attendant has revealed she is questioning her career following the various flight safety incidents in recent months (stock image)
In the post, she explained that she was in her first year and had had some concerns about the subject due to safety reasons.
She also said that she was not happy to be away from her family so often.
‘Hello everyone! This is my first post here and I’m going to jump right in.
‘For context, I have wanted to be a flight attendant for over a year and have recently passed my training and have done a few flights.
‘I’ve always known that the beginning is always the hardest, being away from family, missing out on events etc… But I guess it didn’t really hit me until now. I am a homebody and also love to travel, but with my loved ones for sure.
“The biggest thing for me is also the latest news with Boeing and stuff like that. It really scares me and I guess I’ve always had a slight fear of flying, but with the news it makes me really nervous,” she explained.
She noted that before becoming a flight attendant, she worked a nine-to-five job and had a degree – adding that she could always go back to her old job, but she wanted to change her life.
She said: ‘I used to work a semi 9-5 job, had a degree and job that I can always go back to but I wanted to try something new but at the same time but the anxiety of being on reserve and some bad things, which you all can infer I’m referring to, also affect me leading up to my flights.’
The anonymous cabin crew member took to Reddit to ask for her advice as she admitted she had concerns about her profession due to incidents surrounding ‘Boeing’ planes
At the end of the post, she noted that she didn’t want to ‘disappoint’ her loved one and asked people for kind words to help her stick with her career.
People on the social media platform flooded the comment section urging the flight attendant to stick it out.
One user said: ‘I wouldn’t worry too much. I mean, yes, the Boeing thing is troubling, but at the end of the day, nine times out of 10, you’re going to be fine. That is why you rarely hear about plane crashes when it comes to commercial, because it is very rare.
“Pilots and mechanics have to check the plane and even if something goes wrong, they are usually able to find a solution to the situation without anything terrible happening. If you are really concerned about it, does your company fly non-Boeing aircraft? Just try to avoid Boeing aircraft in your bids.’
Another added: ‘Give it a go! Even if you are starting out, you will like the freedom of the job. I had a WFH job during the pandemic with a micro boss boss. Being able to show up and do your job and come home without stress or baggage is nice. No one is your boss on the plane, everyone knows they’re job (or should know their job) and it all just clicks.
People on the social media platform flooded the comment section urging the flight attendant to stick it out
‘Being gone stinks, if you have a partner it certainly stinks, the money really stinks, even if you start with an inheritance. But the job just rocks around.’
Another user added: “This sounds like “buyer’s remorse.” Things aren’t quite what you thought they would be, and that’s ok, most things are.
‘Give yourself the grace and time to grow into this job. It really is a unique lifestyle, along with all the challenges of adapting to it, there are a whole lot of rewards.’
There have been a number of safety incidents in recent years and months involving Boeing aircraft.
A door stopper blew off mid-flight on January 5 with 171 passengers and crew on board, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon.
Its catastrophic failure depressurized the cabin, with the force of the air rushing in and ripping the shirt off a young boy whose mother was seen holding onto him. Passengers also watched as their phones were sucked into the night sky.
Terrifying footage showed airmen looking out through the gaping hole in the fuselage at the twinkling lights of Portland below in the eerily quiet cabin.
Miraculously, no damage was reported to the plane, which did not enter service until November 2023. Boeing, Alaska Airlines and the National Transportation Safety Board have all launched investigations.
It even sparked a criminal investigation into Boeing – whose whistleblower was found dead.
Six Alaska Airlines passengers have sued Boeing after their horror flight in which a door stopper blew out at 16,000 feet, forcing a dramatic emergency landing in Oregon
There were no serious injuries from the terrifying midair failure, but passengers’ belongings including phones flew out of the plane
The criminal investigation will examine whether Boeing met the terms of the 2021 settlement reached after the fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.
The first occurred when a Max 8 operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea in October 2018.
The second was when an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 crashed almost straight into a field six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa in March 2019.
Boeing reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the FBI and the Department of Transportation in the wake of the crashes, admitting that two former employees had misled the FAA about how much training a new air traffic control system would require.
If the Justice Department finds that Boeing violated the terms of that settlement, they could be prosecuted on the original charge of defrauding the United States.
Boeing declined to comment on the investigation. DailyMail.com contacted Alaska Airlines for comment.
Boeing is also facing a civil lawsuit from a group of passengers aboard the plane.