I took a statistical analysis class in college and remember a few interesting things about the risks of flying:
-You are far more likely to die from eating peanut butter than from an airplane.
-5 times as many people drown in their own bathtubs every year than die in an airplane.
-If you took a week vacation to anywhere in the world on any airline, the safest time of your entire trip (statistically) would be the time you spend sitting on the airplane.
-Yet some people spend this time worrying the whole time about dying, and then happily jump into their car and speed down the highway with all the drunks, teenagers, and race car wannabes thinking their safe when instant death is zipping in the opposite direction just 2 feet away.
-People who take the bus or rent a car to travel because they think it is somehow safer do not have a firm grasp on reality.
-I would rather take my chances in the clouds with a bunch of professionals any day.
-Life is a risk, live it!