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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The current level of aviation safety is built on the back of decades of follow up and investigations of past failures, and by focussing the investigations on eliminating the cause instead of finger pointing.

Mentour Pilot on youtube does absolutely FANTASTIC in-depth, technical recreations of aviation incidents if you want to see the extent that incidents/accidents/near misses are investigated.

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