If you are afraid of air travel, the information I am offering below will help you overcome this fear.
1. Low death rate
According to statistic of American scientists, death rate from bee stings is much higher than aircraft accident. Thereby, death rate due to heart disease is the highest: about 1 out of every 2 people is died from heart attack.
Death rate from bee sting is 1 per 5.5 million people and 1 per 7 million people by airplane crash. This figure shows that you could feel safe when travelling by air. It is even more secured than walking in your own garden.
2. Bad weather
Airplanes often violently shake when flying in bad weather. But in reality, it hardly crashes the plane apart from causing accidents for passengers who do not fasten seat belt. Since 1980 to 2008, there are only 3 airplane crashes caused by bad weather, 2 out of them are because passengers did not keep their seat belt securely when the sign is on.
3. Low risk of aviation accidents
In case of airplane crash, survival rate is also extremely high. From 1983 – 2000, Survival rate of passengers is 96%
4. Bad weather is a small problem
Shake and noise when planes are flying in bad weather are actually similar to cars are going on rough roads. The cars even shake more violently because the planes are designed to survive even the most severe forms of turbulence, improper maintenance can leave them vulnerable.
5. Air craftf crash
Many people are afraid of air travel because they think that airplanes will crash into each other due to thick clouds. In fact, if pilots makes the mistake, airborne collision avoidance system will warn pilots of the presence of other aircraft that may present a threat of collision.
6. Lightning
It is estimated that airplanes were struck by lightning on average of one per year. However, this does not mean that the airplanes are easy destroyed because their skin is made of aluminium alloy which conducts electricity very well.
7. Smoke on planes
Normally, most of passengers die because they breathe too much smoke in narrow space when the accident happens. In this case, the passengers must follow exactly directions of flight attendants to get out of the smoking area as soon as possible.
