Eli5: How is it that there are so few passenger plane crashes?

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They are so big and it seems like so much could go wrong yet they are statistically extremely successful.

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“better technologies, better training, and, believe it or not, better regulation and oversight”

From pilot Patrick Smith, and his website Ask The Pilot: https://askthepilot.com/safest-year-2023/

I like his writing. He’s also critical of security theater; I particularly liked his story of having a butter knife confiscated from his flight bag by TSA while in uniform (it was from first class on one of his planes).

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