Thank you all, especially Don and Jayne, for easing my fears of flying.
I'd stand at the Security check point pulling out hundreds of hair clips if it meant never having to set foot on the plane.
I'm with Ann. It's neither the crash landing, nor the burning I fear. It's the 5-minute, anticipatory, nausea-inducing fall from the sky which sounds hideous to me. If I'm going to be exploded into a million burning pieces, I'd rather not have time to think about it right before it happens. I guess that means my vote is for the take-off crash.