Only reason airplane mishaps make news is because they are so rare.
That’s one reason, but not the only one. Another is that auto fatalities generally involve one to a few people at a time, whereas airline fatalities can involve hundreds.
That is true. But if you count total airline fatalities in first world countries in last 10years, it is smaller by orders of magnitude than traffic fatalities in the same countries. Any complicated machine has some risk. Even the space ships blow up once in a while.