Sorry LEM, I think Burnelli is on magic mushrooms. Modern aircraft and systems are as safe as present day technology can devise them. Unfortunately us,
human beings have to operate them and that is the weak link.
Let me quote an excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's poem,
The Secret of the Machines
Modern Machinery.
We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive,
We can print and plough and weave and heat and light,
We can run and race and swim and fly and dive,
We can see and hear and count and read and write!
But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive.
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings-
Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!--
Our touch can alter all created things,
We are everything on earth--except The Gods!