Cecil
Good post. We are all human, therefore fallible. It doesn't matter how experienced we are, how good we are, how good we think we are or how good a record we have, if we fly long enough and often enough we will prang. Of that there is no doubt.
The day we stop learning, any of us, is the day to give it up. Yes the job (any job) has inherent risks. It's about "risk management", getting you through relatively unscathed and a huge helping of LUCK..