The most basic struggle over this fear is truly realizing the irrationality of it. That's what I did to overcome the worst of it. The remaining fears/anxiety are virtually uncontrollable. But at least I know it's not very likely something will go wrong, and that I took the unlucky draw of being on the plane for the first major airliner travel accident in Canada for a very long time.
Statistically speaking (and according to an article I read this morning), I'm far more likely to be killed as a pedestrian on the streets of the Greater Toronto Area.
I highly recommend reading Ask the Pilot.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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