One of the odd and amusing things about running Fear of Landing is discovering how visitors found the website. My favourite report is the search engine terms. If someone searches on key words or a phrase and then my website comes up in the list of relevant sites, they can click straight through to Fear of Landing and I get a record of what they were searching for when they found me.

A lot of these are exactly what you’d expect for a website like mine: searches on specific crashes or questions to do with aviation. Sometimes, though, it gets a little bit odd. Here’s the highlights of search terms that lead to Fear of Landing in 2014.

Most common searches

• Boston John
• Red Arrows
• Vesna Vulovic
• George Aird

Someone who couldn’t quite remember the name of my blog

• scared of landing visit to blackpool airport atc

Multiple searches which led searchers to the wrong site (is this a thing?)

• sexy nude skydiving stewardess

Search that I should know the answer to but don’t

• what is the largest plane that can land at swansea airport

A searching question

• flying into an area unknown to you, the approach procedure goes below the required visual and weather minimums – the captain elects to continue saying he has flown the procedure ‘numerous times’ – what would you do

Searches that will probably never be answered on Fear of Landing

• what are best ever sex stories with air hostess in hindi
• shark tail how it prevents dipping of its snout (mechanics)

Least useful keywords for a perfectly valid search

• at what time (local) did the ups flight depart dubai international airport on its fateful last flight on

Search most likely to end up as an exam question

• an airplane is flying at 450km/hr at a constant altitude of 5km. It is approaching a camera mounted on the ground

Search from pilot who is seriously planning ahead

• which aircraft have more ability to land on a flooded runway between boeing 737-800 and airbus 319 320

Search most in need of more details

• why didn’t pilot try to make it to ho chi ming for emergency landing

Quiz night search

• do planes land with or against traffic on emergency landings in the street

Most unexpected search

• women wearing masks breathing hard flickr

Search pilot should have made BEFORE the flight

• what will happen if I infringed controlled airspace

Bragging search (My boyfriend has done this too)

• i slept with a pilot

Important search that I just can’t help with

• con man? a man with a british accent from california claims he is a ww2 pilot

And finally…

Search most likely to inspire me to write a new article

• are the birds of prey at prestwick airport trained not to fly away

To be fair, the report results actually show that most of you are sane and interested aviation enthusiasts. But now and then, I have to admit, I have to wonder…