Last year, not including military, balloons, helicopters or aircraft with less than 7 seats there were 1,115 fatalities. If you include everything it is far higher. They do not come in threes, they never stop and planes usually crash every day. It is just noticeable if you look for the three.
Ultralight plane crash kills one | Go Lackawanna, Scranton, PA - GL News
Two dead, four injured in small plane crash in Alaska | Reuters
4 die in plane crash near Russia's St. Petersburg - Taiwan News Online
Idaho plane crash victims had ties to Utah | The Salt Lake Tribune
An Alaska plane crash has led Troopers to believe the two men aboard are dead | Alaska Dispatch
One dead after plane crash near Whitewood
Bogota light aircraft crash kills 2 - Colombia news | Colombia Reports
Recovery team extricates bodies from Wyoming plane crash
Brazil Petrobras: Rescuers Find Fourth Body In Helicopter Crash, Search Ends | FoxBusiness.com
Two die in ultralight crash - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
These from the past few days. Its a sad fact of life, machines are not perfect and neither are people, I wish it were otherwise.