Fight or Flight: Why airplane sounds make us anxious

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Are you afraid to fly? Does even the thought of boarding an airplane make you anxious? You’re not alone. Millions of Americans suffer from clinical aviophobia. While some manage to distract themselves long enough to endure a flight, countless others avoid flying altogether. What are those mysterious sounds that trigger our fears on airplanes? And how do we keep our anxieties from interfering with our lives? Featuring Dr. Devika Fiorillo, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders, and Tom Finnegan, a commercial airline pilot with more than 20 years in the air. 20K is made out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/flight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
0:39.1	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:40.4	This is the story behind the sounds we hear on an airplane
0:43.2	and how to take the fear out of flying.
0:46.0	My attendant's pleaded perfect takeoff. Tons of people have a fear of flying.
1:04.9	Even celebrities who have to travel all the time for work share in these fears.
1:09.1	People like Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock,
1:12.8	and Colin Farrell have all been reported to struggle with this. Even John Madden, the former NFL
1:18.4	coach turned TV commentator. He had such a big fear that he famously traveled cross-country
1:23.7	between Monday night football games in his custom bus, dubbed the Madden Cruiser.
1:29.2	He stopped flying after a panic attack he suffered on a flight, and he's not alone.
1:34.7	As many as one in three Americans is either afraid to fly or has some uneasiness about getting
1:39.6	on an airplane, and for many, the sounds, the sensations, even the thought of flying, can trigger a full-on
1:47.3	panic attack. So, some quick math. At any given time, there are as many as 5,000 aircrafts in the
1:55.1	skies above the U.S. alone. That's according to the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration.
2:00.8	Now, the International Air Transport Association tells us that the average flight has 65 people on it.
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