How confident are you in air transportation?

[Anonymous]

Here's a list of air plane incidents including fatal ones. There are problems frequently.

https://asn.flightsafety.org/database/year/2025/1

As well, so many fatal incidents are due to pilot error. Are you confident in the capabilities, training of pilots sufficiently to fly... or do you seek other modes of transport to reduce the risks?

Here's some videos covering incidents, demonstrating how pilots poor decisions, poor communications led to fatal accidents. As well, some pilots clearly should have had licenses never issues or revoked.

I've heard as well this viewpoint from a pilot, and it's concerning that the quality of pilots as I understand it, is going down.

Im confident in aircraft travel

I'm not so sure...

[MisterWack]

As corporate greed in America rises and around the world, there is:

- Less regulation

- Less entry level positions

- Less wages

- Less benefits

- Less quality utilizing cheaper materials / cheaper means of manufacturing

- Less accountability for minor & major issues which results in corporations not giving a crap

- Less standard of care

- More focus on profit which includes the constant need to cutting expenses wherever possible

I trust air travel now, though as the years go by it will become more rampant with issues especially since Boeing is the only major airplane manufacturer which doesn’t allow for competition. Competition is good for consumers since they have a choice and the business if they want to stay in the game will have to learn to recover, innovate, adapt, and overcome through lowering prices, increases quality, and improving standard of care for staff. Monopolies damage the systems they inherit.

[Anonymous]

You have to look at the overall statistics for transportation. Airline flight is around 14 times safer than driving a car. The thing that scares people is how highly visible an airline crash is, and how many people die in each crash, but if you add up all the car accidents that happen in a given week, accidents you never even hear about, the number of deaths is much higher.

[Asker]

I've heard that argument. Have you watched any of these videos above? It's concerning to hear of the pilots getting through the system and as well some of the processes they have, especially on smaller planes.
with a car, you are in control. In an airplane, you are turning your life over others... and it doesn't look as trustworthy to me as it did before I started reading about these incidents and reading all the comments in them from air crews.
It's safer today than before, but what don't we know?