Air travel is 22x safer than driving a car’

In addition,researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have calculated that,statistically,one would have to fly every day for 22,000 years to be involved in a

fatal aircraft accident,reports News.com.au.

So,that would by giving you a peace of mind,but who best to go to for a reassurance?

A pilot,of course someone who is always up in the air day in,day out.

Qantas captain Alex Passerini has been flying for 23 years and says its certainly the best form of transport.

Its far riskier crossing the street in front of my office building than flying around in the air,I can assure you, he says.

Passerini adds that advances over the years have made flying without doubt,the safest form of mass transport in the world.

We have improved training,better simulators that can deliver more effective training and you need to remember a succession of events would really have to occur for

anything to go wrong,too, he spoke in favour of flight safety.

We have multiple systems on board the aeroplane and a term we use a lot is redundancy. So any single failure cant adversely affect the safety of the plane and,in fact,we

deal with multiple levels,so youre talking about one,two,three or even four failures that have to occur,he said.

Regarding the common concern of turbulence,Passerini said: “Turbulence is simply a change in wind speed and direction,so its a bit like riding on a road and you

encounter potholes.

In a pilots life there would only be a handful of cases where we would see severe turbulence and even then the aeroplane is many,many times inside what its been built to

manage,he added.