Lead, emotively I'd agree with you, but statistics and actual probability guide the beancounters who allocate the money. There's another graph by Boeing that shows that 37% of fatal accidents (where more than one dead, but not necessarily all involved) to jets occur during takeoff and landing ie at the drome. Obviously in 100% of accidents everywhere, something went wrong, but the chance of that being a mid air are statistically very small, and in Australia more often involve gliders, or are in the circuit at the major secondary airports.