More than a third of people worldwide have some anxiety about air travel and flying, and about 2.5% suffer from intense fear or aerophobia. Telling them that air travel is much safer than driving an automobile is not much help because the basis of their fear is the loss of control. For example, passengers in a plane can’t exactly jump out when a fire breaks out or an engine fails like they could had they been in a car. Of the 170 air transportation accidents in 2020, where 13 people died and 13 others were severely injured, the most common ...
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