In general I'd agree with the comments re crash comics, XXX. It's always interesting to read someone else's analysis but there may not be much new. What would be invaluable, though, is an accessible database with some stats. For example, anecdotes might lead to the hypothesis that Jabs fall out of the sky regularly although, with better engines, less often than they used to. But I've been around science and engineering long enough to know that humans are incredibly bad at intuiting things like real risk and failure rates.
The only way for Joe Pilot to answer the question I posed earlier is to have access to an objective database and derived stats. If that database is confined to objective data, I don't see that the ass covering Jaba mentions need be a great worry. I'm not idealist enough to expect manufacturers to hand over the data they undoubtedly do accumulate but surely we might expect our representative organizations to be able to derive and publish basic summaries.