A320 crashed in France

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(2015-03-25 17:00)Leon Wrote:  I'm terrified of flying and even considering buying a ticket makes me want to panic. I know it isn't rational, but fears/phobias rarely (never?) are.

Flying is extremely safe, I know that - Much, much safer than a car ever will be, but if I crash in a car, I die, or I don't. It's instantaneous and that's it. In a plane, you're cruising at ~30.000ft and if something goes wrong, you're forced to sit in a metal tube with crying and screaming strangers and wait for death for however long it takes the plane to reach ground level. In a car crash I don't risk facing an existential crisis like that.

I know that pilots are trained for everything and that planes have backups for everything as well, but like I said: Fear isn't rational.

Well, not all plane crashes are like that. And a lot of them are actually survivable.

I think a lot of plane crashes are on takeoff and landing.

Also, I don't like flying either. Probably seen too many plane crash films.