a passengers view
My comment that i will fly virgin next time is bit flippant - we are all still really shaken up by what happened. My wife and 2 of my 3 kids were on the plane with me and it really wasn't good. Thoughts of leaving an orphan behind etc etc.
As i stated i do appreciate that a pilot views these things differently but you could see that the stewards were just as rattled as we were.
As an aside, one good thing did come of it - i've never seen people watch the safety briefing before. We had a plane full of attentive people on the shuttle flight down from manchester to heathrow!