Lu,
I will try and find the reference in a week or two, but I am pretty sure that it says something like this:
You would have to catch a commercial airliner every day for 26,000 years to gaurantee being involved in a fatal accident.
Flying a commercial airliner is 9 times safer than driving a car.
It seems you believe the media beat ups too.
BTW, if it was such a life threatning fault with the Airbus, why on earth would you have gotten on board? <img src="eek.gif" border="0">