My Brother in law travels often for work, my nephew knew he left on an airplane and that he returned on an airplane. What he missed is that he ever got off and airplane. He thought when his dad went on a trip in an airplane he just flew around for the week and landed when he got home.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- When I was young whenever I rode on an airplane I always thought we were traveling to another planet. — Dennis Rueda
- I used to belive that an airplane was my mothers car. I don't no why. — Erilld
- I used to believe that Disney World was up in the sky because you have to take an airplane to get there.— lauren
- --I thought if I swung hard enough in my swing i could possibly reach an airplane
— dusty chenille - I used to think when an airplane ran out of fuel, it stayed stuck in the sky.— BoB
- I used to believe that when you flushed on an airplane, it would land on the people below.Anon