Tricks I use: 1. Think about how many takeoffs and landings happen every minute around the world, and how little you hear about plane crashes. Similar to your

Tricks I use: 1. Think about how many takeoffs and landings happen every minute around the world, and how little you hear about plane crashes. Similar to your random trick. 2. Investigate all plane crashes in the last 20 years and understand if they can happen again today. 3. Understand that everything on a plane has a backup. EVERYTHING. 4. Understand that you WILL die from other things at a 99.999% probability and that you should spend your CPU cycles avoiding them instead. More people died of sickness caused from flights than from actually flying. 5. Understand that turbulence is COMPLETELY natural and has nothing to do with crashing. It is almost impossible to crash from turbulence. (see here: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-plane-crashes-due-to-turbulence https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-plane-crashes-due-to-tur...). You are more likely to crash from turbulence due to pilot error who doesn't know what to do in the case of turbulence, compared to the turbulence itself causing the crash. 6. Choose the best airlines, those that you know they will do whatever they can to increase maintenance of airplane parts (which can incur material fatigue over time). 7. Think about the fact that people who fly for a living (e.g. flight attendants and commercial pilots) don't live less than you. Well, minus the sickness stuff.