I just stumbled in on this board, and this is my first post. What a great site!!!
I am much more nervous in a
LARGE TRUCK than an airplane for the simple reason that there are no other cars & trucks to play suicidal games with me in an airplane.
I sometimes go on flights just for fun

, & I will be doing SJC (home) to PHX next weekend for no particular reason.

I'm tempted to go from here to MCO so that I can try out the new 764 that Delta just bought for their ATL-MCO-ATL.

I'll be among the first on the new A3XX, and B-747X when it first flies. I certainly wouldn't be spending the bucks $$$ on this expensive habit if I thought that airplanes were unsafe.
Your best bet is to just sit back, relax, $ enjoy the fabulous view of God's Green (& blue) Earth, and the flight as well.
Erik; likes long hauls.