Why you should not be afraid of flying

I know that most of you are afraid of flying. In a recent study, it is found out that more than 80% of the world's population is afraid of boarding on an airplane and that is always for the same one reason. Plane crashes. Today I am going to try to convince you that flying is not a fear that you should have, in fact, flying is the safest mode of transport!

Now, you may ask, how come I always see and hear these plane crashes on TV with the reporters sounding very serious about it and trying to scare us away from flying? Well, all they want to do is make money. No matter how small the incident is, they try to make it a very big deal so that more people will see the article and earn more money.

For those who I have not convinced yet, you need to see it in big numbers. Yes, of course, there is still a very slim chance you can be in a plane crash but more than 1 million flights are airborne very minute (before COVID-19) and airplane crashes don't happen very frequently, with them happening around once every 2-3 months and major incidents happening every year. That makes the chances of you in a fatal crash around one in one billion compared to car crashes that happens every day a lot of times. There are almost 1000 times more deaths from car accidents compared to flying per year.

Flying is not something you should be scared of and don't listen to every single thing the press says. I'm not saying the press exaggerates everything but they do sometimes but at the end of the day, it's your decision.

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