"A categorical refusal to fly often stems from a fundamental belief about life: the idea that "I need safety at all costs." We take a perfectly valid and functional belief, "I want to be safe," and escalate it into an unreasonable demand, "I need an absolute ironclad guarantee of safety." The trouble with this demand is that it causes you to misperceive the odds."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20070709-000001.html
2 comments:
I think car accidents are more likely, but it could just be the fact that in the air, you feel like you have no control whatsoever.
I think the fact that you can't get out of a plane till someone says you can has to be taken into account as well.
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