Teddles - nah, take the plane, they are very safe, and statistically, you're in a fairly crash-free zone. I certainly have had a couple of "hairy flights", one where a bit of the wing fell off and the flight was cancelled (thank god it didn't happen when we were at 35000 feet) and the other where an engine on a jumbo had a blow-out. Now that WAS scary, but the engine was powered off and we continued limping across the heavens on three engines. Still, neither of these events have put me off flying. Helicopter ... nah, never. In a plane, you've at least got a slight chance of gliding if your engines fail ...
