The Truth About Airplane Safety - Is Your Fear of Flying Justified?

The Truth About Airplane Safety - Is Your Fear of Flying Justified?

Are you a bit nervous about flying? Not convinced that airplanes are all safe? If so, you are not alone. Many people around the world are afraid to fly.

Many fearful fliers are willing to smother her fears down and get on a plane if they must necessarily be spoiled for pounding fears from takeoff to landing endure - and the suffering for days or weeks mounting fear as the flight draws ever closer.

Others simply refuse to fly only, the personal costs matter. Whether flying for business or fun, endangered careers or strained relationships with friends and family can result from missed the benefits of flying. But whatever the pain remain bottom bound, it is not enough to get this group on a plane.

Are you

If you are a fearful flyer in one of these groups

- if you're in the grit-your-teeth-and-get-on-the- planning group or the Is not no-way-no-how group - you might think that you have much reason to be afraid. After all, every time there is an aircraft accident is reported front and center in the news. When it happens, you are sure to hear it, fueling your fear flying more.

the early years of this century into consideration. In precisely this relatively short period, you have had from your mind fear from hearing incident reporting how to fly this:

• February crashed 2009, Continental Connection Flight 3407 on approach to Buffalo Niagara international Airport in New York. 50 people were killed.
• August 2006 Comair Flight 5191 crashed during takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Kentucky. 49 people were killed.
• October 2004 flight Corporate Airlines 5966 crashed approach to Kirksville Regional Airport in Missouri. 13 people were killed.
• January 2003 Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed soon after taking off from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. 21 people were killed.
• November 2001 crashed American Airlines Flight 587 shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. 265 people were killed.

These accidents all occurred in the United States, and of course, more accidents occurred in other parts of the world during this period.

If you have a fear of flying done, you might think, "There, you see? This is why I do not want to get in an airplane!" So if you are flying to avoid, because you feel it is not quite sure, you're absolutely right - flying is not "perfect" safe.

Oh, and here are some other activities that you want to avoid, be because they are more dangerous - statistically speaking - as an airline flight to:

• Under the shower
• go out (because you could die from a bee sting)
• go out (because you could die from a lightning strike)
• go outside (because you could from the solar radiation on skin cancer die)
• indoors stay (because you could die of lung cancer from indoor air pollutants such as radon and toxic mold)
• riding in a car (or just about any other type of wheeled vehicle)
• Essen (because you could die from food poisoning)
• not to eat (for obvious reasons!)
• to mow the lawn
• any product from China imported using (just kidding ... sort of)

Yes, I'll admit, this list is a bit jokingly. But each of these activities is statistically more dangerous than an airline company flight (except the last ... maybe). And the obvious point is that there are many, many activities that you engage on a regular basis, which are far more dangerous than flying.

air travel is becoming continuously more secure, but recent statistics show that 1 fatal accident for about every 8 million flights of US carriers important air occurs. To put it differently, would you have a day to take a flight, every day, for more than 21,000 years before you would statistically likely to die in a plane crash.

Pretty good odds!

But it's really not about the numbers , right?

If you are afraid to fly makes reading the above help? I'd be willing to bet not. That's because the fears and phobias that we all fall of facts, figures and logic are very rarely justified victim.

I happen to know someone who suffers from a phobic fear of snakes. But she's a snake in nature might have seen 3 or 4 times in a lifetime. And on each of those very rare cases, you can be sure, the serpent was more freaked out when she was terrified and just want to get away from the screaming, berserk man as soon as possible. This extreme fear of snakes is person of illogical and unjustified, but that does not matter. She feels what she feels.

And if you by a fear suffering phobia of flying, I'm willing to guess that you are not much different from my snake furch friend - except that get on an airplane you is your snake. You probably know that your fear is unreasonable and not justified, but that's not really change things up, is not it? It does not change how you feel.

The if your: fear but flight Impacting's your life, do not know that You can change the . Many people have. And it is not easy to learn, facts, figures and statistics on the fly. There is nothing as trivial and unrealistic as reading an article, you is told how safe flying, immediately dashing your fears.

There is grab your fears at the roots and to eradicate them one by one, just as you would a garden weed. It's about learning to change your feelings instead of trying to ignore it. That's how you get free from your fear of flying.