Comment by aydyn

À lot of the reason why flying is so safe now is because of the culture of investigating every incident to make sure they won't happen again.

And, unfortunately, it's not that rare that the investigations to turn up things that were the result of corners being cut. I'm guessing that's what the "FAFO" comment points to.

And that has a lot to do with the said regulations. It is not safer because of magic or because flying in air was inherently safer then driving on ground.

Flying is only safer than driving a car when extremely regular and frequent maintenance is performed and performed correctly. The safety of flying goes down very fast when the maintenance effectiveness goes down. That is not true for cars.