Should we be more concerned about air travel safety?

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Like many people, I do try to keep up on news. I feel it's more important than it's ever been, as our world in general seems to be in turmoil we never imagined. This morning, a plane leaving Houston for New York appears to have caught fire right before take-off, luckily the passengers were all removed in time and the crisis was averted. Add this to the list of sad tragedies this week of the horrific crash in D.C. with the plane and the helicopter in the Potomac. Then the terrible crash in Philadelphia of the air ambulance, and all the lives lost there. No, I am not in to spreading conspiracy theories about these disasters. I am simply wondering--why? Is it lack of good plane maintenance? Poor planning or poor decisions? Lack of good training, lack of employees? One person doing a job that should take two people? Because my life currently requires me to be where I am and care for my son, I do not currently fly. Not to mention anything I catch, I can bring back to my son, whether it's COVID or a bug of some kind, and I am trying not to do that. But some of my family members fly for business/job purposes, as do many friends. The idea of anyone getting into a plane is getting really scary. I am personally leaning toward maintenance and lack of proper staffing. But of course, that's an opinion only, not a fact. Or is it all simply circumstantial, or one of those things where the powers that be repeat that same saying ''it is what it is'' which of course is not an answer. Many people are quickly losing confidence in air travel in the US. What about you? Do you fly often? Do you think this is just a ''bad run'' of incidents/accidents, or what will become the ''new normal'' and poor safety? I don't know, of course. I just know it's concerning.