I know that this thread has drifted right off course but it's our cabin back here and we can do what the heck we like. (I'm sure that Xenia is keeping a look out for where we're going!)
As for West Africa ... my nephew operated a contract for the UN in Angola a few years ago and was VERY glad to return to South Africa. He even reckoned that getting malaria had the advantage of getting him out a couple of weeks early.
As for surviving a major incident ... my presumption is that I will not survive it. This does not worry me. Like most folks you just want it to be quick and a plane crash tends to be so. The classic line of Woody Allen comes to mind, "I'm not frightened of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens."