When I was little I did not understand why people were afaid they would get hurt in a plane crash. I thought you could just jump out of the plane right before it hit the ground and walk away.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- if heavy people went on a plane i thought that it would tip over.— michael hague
- I thought that Heaven was literally up in the sky and you could fly there in a plane— Nate
- when I was little, I was scared of taking the plane because I thought clods were solid !! — valentine a french student in eigth
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- I used to believe in the plane there were birds to make it fly— laura 401
- I used to believe that Florida was up in the clouds and that's why we had to take a plane to get there.Anon