I think it has to do with scale and control. The scale of the kinds of death you cited are typically personal. The actual act of the death has a local scope. I

I think it has to do with scale and control. The scale of the kinds of death you cited are typically personal. The actual act of the death has a local scope. It tends to be cordoned off and lacks spectacle in the sense that it doesn't produce tons of rampant collateral damage. Further, in most of those situations, there's some semblance of having autonomy and the possibility of personal choice and escape. Not so with flight. Airplanes are a massive scale transportation system that has way more passengers than operators, and we rescind basically all control to those few operating experts to keep us safe. Couple that with the fact that, in most cases airplane accidents have breadth of collateral damage, and you have a perfect storm of human fear. Not only is it a system which we have no hope of controlling or escaping (in the case of accidents), it is super dramatic, comparatively rare, and thus eye catching. People's fear of the lack of control is only second to their fear of the unknown.