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[FabHK]

> the actual injury and fatality rate is really low due to well trained crews and measured responses by air controllers.

It’s the crew and ATC staff, definitely, but also

- the amazingly well engineered airplanes (despite recent Boeing hiccups - just goes to demonstrate the high standards) with many redundancies;

- the archaic, but robust ATC system; and

- last but not least the excellent safety culture, which investigates problems thoroughly to the root, but without blaming individuals.

[rvnx → FabHK]

Boeing could still argue "you see, it's safe, redundant systems worked, we haven't killed anyone this time"