I absolutely love flying, but I've had two hair-raising experiences. My first was the first flight I ever took. We were flying from Newark to Nassua, Bahamas, and there was some pretty nasty weather over the Atlantic. We hit a couple air pockets, which caused the 737 to shake and drop suddenly. Thinking back on it now it wasn't so scary, but when you're 12 and flying for the first time its scary as hell.
The second hair raising experience I had was flying from Philadelphia back home to Manchester the day before Thanksgiving. It was a really windy morning, and there was a very strong cross-wind blowing through our approach lane. The wings were shaking, and you could tell the pilots couldn't keep the plane on its path because he kept having to rock the wings and make steep course corrections. The lady next to me gripped my wrist so hard I almost lost feeling, lol. As we touched down, we were way off center of the runway and the grass next to the runway was way too close to the plane for comfort.