How safe is your flight?

 Air crashes are rare, it's not often you see a major accident involving one of the big carriers.  What you don't get to hear about is how often flights have a problem that could be serious if not dealt with properly. Sadly crews in many of the accidents don't respond properly.
 Humans are actually not very good at monitoring things, the more complicated something is the less well adapted we are are watching it.
 Your sitting there minding your own business and everything is good, and suddenly you get an alarm, flashing lights and the auto pilot says bugger this matie it's all yours!
 That emergency actually takes even an experienced pilot time to work out whats going on, tests have shown it takes between about 10 seconds to as much as a minute for a pilot to take in whats going on and react properly. All too often they don't react properly, you'd be surprised how often even so called experienced pilots will pull back on the controls to dive a plane (the wrong way) this has caused more than one fatal accident.
 In the last 24 hours we've had an Airbus have to make an emergency landing due to smoke in the cockpit from an electrical fire (a cause of several fatal crashes) A Boeing 737 and an Airbus both having to land after engine failure, and a Boeing 777 had a delayed takeoff after a power bank caught fire as a passenger was boarding.
 Now in theory all twin or four engine aircraft should be able to fly nicely with one engine out, all pilots practice this. Yet every so often a crew will get it wrong, shutting down the wrong engine caused at least one crash (they shut down the good one). So who knows if your crew will be switched on and alert......
 By the way I'm not afraid of flying... I'm just afraid of crashing....

 Being serious the odds are well in your favor. The chances of being killed in an aircrash are VERY small.  Your much more lightly to die in your car.