Terrified of Flying? Just Call a Pilot

There’s no doubt about it: Commercial flight is safer than ever. Not only that, but flying is among the safest modes of transportation, period. In 2023, it sometimes feels like the unsafest thing about air travel is the potential for passengers to have a meltdown.

And yet, according to the most commonly cited study, roughly 40 percent of the U.S. population reports some anxiety around flying, with 2.5 to 5 percent having what would be considered a clinical phobia.

Flying is a surrender of control, putting your trust in fallible humans launching you 30,000 feet into the sky in a cramped metal tube. To the layperson, it can be a mysterious but awe-inspiring form of travel that also happens to remind many of their own mortality.

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