What causes aerophobia?

What causes aerophobia?

Aerophobia usually doesn’t have a specific cause. It’s very rare for aerophobia to stem from a traumatic experience on a flight. Specific triggers might include:

• News stories about terrorism, crashes or violence on airplanes.
• Take-off and landing.
• Thoughts about fire or illness spreading through the plane.
• Turbulence (bumps during the flight).

Other phobias can also make aerophobia worse:

• Acrophobia (fear of heights).
• Agoraphobia (fear of leaving the house or not being able to escape from a place or get help if something goes wrong).
• Anthropophobia (fear of people).
• Claustrophobia (fear of crowded, confined spaces).
• Mysophobia (germaphobia, or fear of germs).