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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A pilot buddy of mine told me that each aircraft is actually about 4 aircrafts smushed into one. Because there are usually at least 3 lines of redundancy in case any particular component fails.

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