But on one fateful flight from Virginia to Boston several years ago, her fear finally took complete control.
That wild ride did not begin until several decades after the Wright brothers made their fateful flight at Kitty Hawk.
I'm ready," he said, "to ask your idea of what happened on that fateful flight to London.
Then came the fateful flight and the end of the world he knew.
A good deal of other news about that fateful flight has emerged in the weeks since the plane's disappearance.
Mr Hancock talked about a fateful flight on November 16, 1952.
A blood clot had formed in his leg while on that fateful flight.
Hess's fateful flight to Scotland followed in 1941.
The clever ploy of removing two crew the night before the fateful flight had accomplished three things.
Memories of that fateful flight haunted him.