With major events being as rare as they are in NA/WEU/AU, the outcome of those events has to be considered small sample statistics. Keep that in mind when you judge by the number of lives lost. That simply doesn't say anything about air safety. As others have pointed out, there were plenty of incidents and accidents in NA over this time period where it was down to pure luck nobody died.
You must be joking.
It speaks volumes about air safety.
Number of flights are up hugely in the past couple of decades and fatal accidents are way down.
Does that qualify as small sample statistics?
To me it points to very conclusive statistics.