Air travel is the safest form of travelling. But it doesn’t seem to be so, at least not in our heads. The question is, why? The answer is very simple. The media reports every air crash. But it never reports all the safe landings at airstrips happening every minute across the world. As Tom Chivers and David Chivers write in How to Read Numbers – A Guide to Statistics in the News: “Newspapers print stories about air crashes, which are novel and exciting and rare, rather than stories about planes that land safely, which is boring and common; so the public conversation… fills up with a skewed picture of how……