Are you one of those terrified airline passengers who needs to pop a few valium before boarding a plane? Well a UK-based website, www.amigoingdown.com, may be able to put you mind at ease by calculating the chances of a fatality on global airline routes.

According to the site, travellers flying British Airways between Dublin and London next month can breathe relatively easier as there is only a one in 47 million chance of a fatality.

But pity anyone flying to Sierra Leone from the UK, where the odds are reduced to one in 746,000!