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Has the internet merely become more sensitive to aviation related incidences, or has there been a quantitatively measurable increase in them?

My impression is that airline incidents are currently one of the winners of "the game", and that our difficulty to grasp the true scale of the complete situation hinders our ability to contextualize the trends. Personally I still assume that it is not indicative of the sky falling for air travel. Articles like [0] seem to agree, although it uses number of incidents and not casualties to make its case.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/airplane-crashes-sta...

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