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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Imagine if every car on the road was vigorously inspected every time it was to be driven. And then imagine every single driver had to go through a long in-depth schooling process just to be allowed to drive the car. Along with every system in the car having at least one or two backups for anything that can break.

That’s just how planes are.

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