There is a very dark story your mind likes to tell. It whispers that if anything goes wrong on a flight then it is all over. It tells you that an aviation accident is a guaranteed death sentence. This thought turns every takeoff into a gamble with your life.
We need to look at the facts. The data does not support this story of inevitable doom. The survivability rate in aviation incidents is actually around 53%. This data comes from comprehensive tracking of jet fleets since 1959. Understand what "incident" means here. It includes events where the plane is damaged beyond repair or there are serious complications. Even in these serious cases more than half the people survive.
Modern airplanes are designed with survival as a priority. The seats are built to withstand massive impacts. The materials are chosen to resist fire to give you time to evacuate. The cabin layouts are engineered to allow quick exits. People walk away from wrecks that look devastating on the news.
Your mind ignores these facts because of a cognitive distortion. If you experienced rejection or loss that came out of nowhere then your nervous system learned to assume the worst is guaranteed. You learned that if something bad starts to happen then there is no escape. You project this internal emotional reality onto the external mechanical reality of the plane.
The actual risk of a fatal incident is minuscule. It is about 1 in 25 million. You are safer in the air than you are driving your car. For 16 years straight there has not been a single failure of a plane crossing the Atlantic. The "doomed flight" is a fantasy created by your anxiety to prepare you for a disaster that is not going to happen.
