Ignorance Is Bliss?

I had refrained from reading anything about plane crashes thinking that the lesser I know about how plane could crash, the easier it is to deal with flight-scare. You can't be afraid of what you don't know, so goes my reasoning.

But the fear of flying does not seemed to go away. Perhaps I should do it the other way around -- to know as much as possible not only about what could go wrong during a flight, but also what security or safety measures aircraft makers put in place to deal with situations.