Risk, minimum, or minimized, or not
To ChissayLuke:
I have to voice disagreement with your assertions about - if not also your overall approach to - the presence of risks in civil aviation. It is a given, a bedrock, foundational, immovable, irrefutable and undeniable building block of the entire international civil aviation system that, because flying is an inherently dangerous activity, provisions must be set in place for the handling of compensation to victims of accidents. The Warsaw Convention, the most foundational and bedrock piece of the system of international agreements, was entered into....in 1929. So to say that the flying public is unaware of risk, really is to say something quite different: some individuals (and perhaps, some groups within some segments of some cultures or societies or even, regions of the world) prefer not to think about the risks, preferring instead just to wish that everything will work out fine on their particular trip. But to assert that somehow the flying public is entitled to some pristine atmosphere above the earth where the laws of physics do not apply, and flying can be made inherently safe, is to ignore what cannot be ignored - the international legal system on which the present day's world airline community was built. It was not so long ago, as you may or may not recall, that the back of ticket stock contained a summary of the terms of the Warsaw Convention - yeah, the print was small, and IIRC was printed in red ink, but as recently as 1972, if a member of the flying public was interested in how the law acknowledged the inherently dangerous nature of flying, it was there, in red and white.