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Your brothers and sisters, if any of you have ever encountered

a fear of flying, there's something very interesting about

the particular phobia that some have with being in an airplane.

And no matter what statistics you give to someone

about how safe it is to fly, if someone has an apprehension, you can tell them

you're more likely to be hit by a car while riding your bike.

You're more likely to die by a furniture fall.

You're more likely to die by this, to die by that.

The apprehension is still very strong.

And one of the reasons for that is that there is a psychology to it of not being able to control

your own fate. When you're in a plane and you're in midair and the turbulence starts,

and I'm sure many of us have experienced it where you're watching a movie or you're reading

something or you're talking to someone and then as soon as the plane starts to shake,

everyone starts to make your... everything gets very tense, except for the experienced

flyers that have been on there all the time, but the turbulence causes a great sense of apprehension.

And even if you try to go through the statistics in your head and say, well, you know,

this happens all the time, it's okay, everything's going to be fine.

Most people who fly frequently could tell you that they've experienced a moment where they

thought this turbulence was going to lead to a plane accident, that it was going to crash this

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