apaddyinuk
Hi, you're right about the fact that no matter what is done, nothing is without risk and airlines and the pilots can only do their utmost to limit such risk.
The thing is with the ACI series that can put the frighteners on people like me is that when they eventually reveal the cause of the crash, it's often something that seems far too tiny a detail to actually crash a plane.
A case in point is the one I saw recently about the Helios plane where the cabin didn't pressurise as the switch was on manual rather than automatic. A maintenance guy had been checking a report that a rear door wasn't sealing properly so flicked it the switch in the cockpit from automatic to manual pressurisation the previous evening and hadn't flicked it back.
How did something like that get missed in a pre-flight check by the Captain and co-pilot ?