Airplane Rides Suck

So, come to find out, plane rides are hazardous to your health! Not only are they long (especially when you live in Hawaii), tedious, turbulent, shake-up your equilibrium, uncomfortable, make you fear crashing into the ocean, filled with gross food and sometimes smelly people, they give you major exposure to radiation! My sister Allie decides to tell me about all these fun facts right before we get on the 5 hour flight home from L.A.!!!Admittedly we were both bored and we had a 5 hour lay over, but still! So now we are both even more afraid to fly.

Super Fun and Depressing Airplane Radiation Facts:

1. Pilots and flight attendants have one of the highest rates of cancer.
2. Pilots' and flight attendants' children have a higher rate of leukemia, birth defects and down syndrome.
3. 6 hours of flight time is the same amount of radiation as a chest x-ray.
4. There is a significant increase in radiation at the window seat.
5. You should wear sun screen even on an airplane - that one is from Nat.