Apprehension lingers in the air as ISU students make Thanksgiving travel plans after Monday’s airplane crash in New York.

ISU students made up a portion of the 34.6 million people who traveled over the Thanksgiving Day holiday last year, according to the American Automobile Association Web site.

“Today I’m nervous,” said Keianna Chatman, who is driving to New Orleans and then flying to Chicago Nov. 20.

Chatman, junior in English, said she was comfortable flying until today. She didn’t “think flying out of someplace small, like New Orleans” would be a problem. Now, she said, she’s unsure.

“My mother told me I shouldn’t fly,” Chatman said, although she doesn’t intend to cancel her flight plans.

Chatman isn’t the only person who paused Monday to consider holiday plans.

Brook Trout, freshman in pre-computer science, will leave Friday for California. Trout said the time it takes to pass through security both pre-flight and afterward bothers him.

The time is an inconvenience, he said, but it may increase if Monday’s crash wasn’t because of mechanical failures.

When Trout arrives at LAX, the Los Angeles airport, his family won’t be able to meet him at the gate because people who aren’t flying are not permitted into the terminal.

“My family isn’t allowed to meet me,” Trout said. “I’ll have to leave the building and walk to meet them.”

International students have a lot farther to travel to see family over the holidays.

Mohamed Yacoub, graduate student in agricultural education and studies, said he has opted to not go home to Cairo, Egypt, until the semester break.

Yacoub said he usually flies out of Des Moines, through St. Louis to Kennedy Airport in New York and on to Cairo.

After the crash of the American Airlines plane, which departed from Kennedy Airport, Yacoub said he was scared.

While he is a little worried about getting out of the country, Yacoub said he is more concerned about getting back in.

“I’m afraid I won’t be able to come back,” Yacoub said. “They are suspecting everyone.”

He said these are “serious issues” for all international students.

“In my opinion, a lot of people will be scared,” Yacoub said.