I was thinking about that... but even with a relatively abysmal safety record... on average it's still an incredibly safe way to travel.

Air safety seems the quintessential "discounting the horror of extremely rare accidents from the actual total safety rate" mental trap.

When it's years between incidents, and that widely used? Yeah, I'd still fly on one if I needed to.

But I swim in the pool during thunderstorms too, so not really a zero risk type person.