For every DC10 hero there are a dozen muppets witness the Cyprus incident.
If that was true we would all need umbrellas to protect us from the raining aluminium. More accurate to say, for every incident that hits the news, there are a hundred that are handled well, with no one outside the company concerned ever hearing about it. Even on modern jet aircraft (the aircraft I fly entered service long after the A320) there are situations the autopilot cannot cope with. Tooling around in a PA28 may not seem relevant, but it does give you the chance to learn to COPE.