What do you get if you survive a plane crash

  The National Institute of Mental Health says that the fear of flying, usually called aviophobia, affects 6.5 percent of the population, or approximately 20 million people. And while these fears are largely unfounded (according to a 2014 ICAO safety report the total number of plane accidents in 2013 was 90 world-wide with only 9 involving fatalities), it does happen. And it's a rather terrifying prospect.

We wondered about the more practical aspects of this fear. What happens if you die? What can your family recover? What happens if you survive? What are you entitled to?

While most airlines have strict regulations about the information they are willing to give out as it pertains to aviation disasters, a few lawyers, a former flight attendant, and two survivors were more than happy to tell us what they knew about the grim subject.