- Jan 5, 2013
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Why? There are over 100,000 flights a day, a DAY. The odds of dying in a plane crash are something like 1 in 30 million and even if you are in a crash the chance of surviving are 25% What is there to possibly get freaked out about?
It's perfectly understandable that people get freaked out by it - you're suspended thousands of feet in the air, and if anything goes wrong you're dead - it's not like a car accident where you've a chance of surviving.
I just try to remember that it's about 100x safer than car travel - does the trick.