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How to overcome the fear of flying?/ Some facts you didn't know

2024-01-23 17:48:00, Kuriozitete CNA

How to overcome the fear of flying?/ Some facts you didn't know

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Some of the most frequently asked questions on the focus.it website are about the fear of flying, how to overcome it and much more. According to statistics, the plane is the safest means of transport.

On average, more than eight million people fly every day. In 2013, the total number of civilian passengers was 3.1 billion (equal to 44% of the world's population). During this period there were only 81 accidents and 210 deaths.

probability

David Ropeik of Harvard University calculated in 2006 that the odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 11 million. According to him, it is easier to die from a shark attack, where the chances are 1 in 3 million.

In 2013, Arnold Barnett, a professor of statistics in Boston, found that the risk of death for passengers on commercial airlines is 1 in 45 million flights.=

According to the New York Times, a traveler could fly every day for 123,000 years and still be safe.

There are 49,871 airlines in the world, which account for 102,465 daily flights. The flights of the three main airlines (Star Alliance, One World and Sky Team) alone are 47 777.

Jobs in Civil Aviation

Civil aviation employs over 57 million people and contributes $2.2 trillion to the global economy.

Safety in flight

Airplane is the safest means of transportation. The data refers only to the US, but it is clear: accidents cause 0.06 deaths for every one billion miles traveled.

The University of Oxford estimated that in 2006, Britons had a 1 in 36,512 chance of dying in a car crash and a one in 3.5 million chance of dying in an air crash.

turbulence

There are three types of turbulence: light, moderate and severe. Strong turbulence is very rare. A few minutes out of approximately 10,000 flight hours for a pilot. It's scary, but not dangerous. The aircraft can be diverted at a height of up to 30 meters.

Love for life wins

Psychologist and former US Air Force captain Tom Bunn has developed a program against the fear of flying called "Saar" and is based on the release of oxytocin, known as the love hormone.

According to him, by learning to imagine, with a little practice, a reliable source of the love hormone, your familiars, the face of your thirsty partner, oxytocin enters the circulation and the amygdala releases the stress hormone responsible for in-flight anxiety./ CNA