Air travel since the 70s has been boringly safe for the most part, so we increasingly have to rely on this sort of heady idiocy to bring some excitement into the mix again, although LEADING AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS are of course doing their bit as well with their QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM REDACTED that seems set on bringing back the golden age of planes falling to bits in mid air or randomly going out of control.
Before that era it's amazing that anyone got on an aircraft at all. Ran out of fuel. Wings fell off. Caught fire. Bit foggy so crashed into house. Crashed because everyone went to one side to look out the window. Fly straight into mountain that wasn't meant to be there