Originally Posted by TravellingSalesman

Surely that would be a matter of personal comfort-risk analysis?

In the highly unlikely event of a crash you have a higher survival probability with shoes on, but if that means being more uncomfortable in all of your safe starts and landings there is a choice to be made.

According to the IATA there were 17 hull loss accidents in 36.8m flights on Western-built aircraft in 2010 - i.e. a rate of less than .61 per million. So you are overwhelmingly likely never to be involved in an aircraft crash. And even if you are, anecdotes aside, how much more likely are you to survive with shoes on?

Not everybody puts on fire proof clothing whenever they get into a car, just in case they have a catastrophic crash with fire involved.