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Originally Posted by S4t3K Fourth plane crash since January 2015 if I remember correctly. More than once a month. My advice this year is to move by boat, by car, or even using your good ol' feet. But avoid planes.

Keep your tinfoil hat to yourself. The number of fatalities has not spiked over the past few months or years - rather, air travel is as safe now as it has ever been thanks to our good friend 'technology'.

This is always mentioned when an accident like this happens, but it's just that people forget about old tragedies so whenever there's a new one (or a few within a month or a year), suddenly they perceive there to be significantly more than in the past. It's a cognitive bias and it's wrong.

It's always been significantly safer to fly than to drive - comparing number of air fatalities to car accident fatalities.