The absence of really bad aviation news
As a long time observer of this Rumours & News thread on Pprune, let me say how wonderful it has been over the last 6 months or so to see how little activity there has been on this thread compared to many years past.
No longer are we picking through the horrific photos of crash sites, attempting to put together the destroyed skins of planes and passengers.
We should celebrate the substantial improvement in aviation safety that has evolved over the last 10-15 years or so.
Yes, we would like to come and join this thread to dig out the secrets underlying the latest aviation disaster, and are maybe disappointed at the lack of any deplorable incident for each of us to apply our Sherlockian investigative skills to.
But this indicates that the aviation world has become so much safer - so many fewer crashes for each of us to wallow over. Thank the heavens for this safer travel world, even if it means that the Rumours & News thread is much less visited because it has become much less interesting in this newly evolved safety era.