Are all of these airline incidents and crashes concerning you?

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They concern me. Right now, I am needed at home, of course, and I'm not planning on flying anywhere. However, several of my children sometimes from work fly for work, and of course friends do as well. I have heard from several friends that are beginning to be concerned about the airline industry in general. Of course, we all have no way of knowing just what the issues really are, we can speculate, but that does nothing but spread false information. The helicopter/plane crash recently in Washington, D.C. was, of course, fatal to all involved, and a horrible tragedy. From what they have reported so far, it appears to point to pilot error by the helicopter? I know it is still under investigation at this time. Sunday, an American Airlines flight, from JFK to Dehli, had to land unexpectedly after a bomb threat was made--evidently, from someone actually on the flight. No wreck, and no bomb found, just a lot of delays, and angry passengers. No guilty party found yet either. I hope they do find whoever did this, it certainly isn't acceptable in any way. '' every passenger was dragged from the plane and detained within the gate before undergoing another security check, according to View from the Wing. While passengers waited in a section that was blocked off, incoming baggage was removed from the aircraft and placed on the tarmac for examination.'' MSN news. Incidents like this are costly, frightening, and cause much stress and delay. I know every bomb threat has to be taken seriously. And I suppose in our present day world, a bomb is possible. I don't know much about bombs at all except for what I have read, but I do know they can kill efficiently and quickly. It all seems very concerning to me. So many precautions, scanning's, checkpoints--and still these things happen. In the overall number of flights taking off every day, of course the percentage of accidents and such is low--but still, it's happening. Back in 1996, one of my aunts booked a long desired trip to France. She was so excited for the trip, which she was taking with her cousin. The day before the trip, she woke up very ill and by that night was in the hospital awaiting surgery. The trip was cancelled for them, of course, and rebooked for another time. That trip they planned for so long was TWA Flight #800, if you were around at that time, I am sure you heard about it. Over 200 people died. I know accidents happen...but are all these incidents/crashes/mishaps/whatever you want to call them, accidents?