It still amazes me that with the number of flight-hours per 24-hour period in the entire world that there aren’t many more crashes per day.
It at least speaks to the reliability of the equipment, the ground and maintenance crews and pilots.
Nearly all the crashes of commercial airlines are puddle jumpers flown by relatively inexperienced pilots flying relatively unreliable aircraft in relatively unreliable weather conditions. And the more remote you get from US airlines the more dangerous your flight would be.
I would not, for instance, fly on Aero Mexico or Peruvian Airlines or any Middle Eastern airline other than El Al. And for obvious reasons there is no way on earth I would get on a Malaysian Airlines flight to anywhere. I think they are done.
Still, even those airlines are safer, per passenger mile, than any other mode of transportation.