Interesting thread that has reminded me of a fear I encountered some 23 years into flying: After the Nimrod XV230 fire, my confidence in the airframe was seriously impaired. Every encounter with turbulence had me worrying that a structural failure would occur, and that I would find myself experiencing some free fall terror that presumably the heroes of XV230 did. I was terrified. I completely lost confidence in the aircraft and requested a ground tour (using another excuse), which I got. It’s sad to think that as a 20 year old Nimrod crew member, I relished pulling g and bouncing around at low level for hours on end; it was so exhilarating. Many of us comment how invincible we thought we were when we were younger, so perhaps it was an age and experience thing that made me realize my mortality. Either way, I am very thankful to have had the flying career that I did, but very humbled to be writing about it today.