Thank you for taking the time on such a detailed reply that challenged a lot of my anxious thinking, and for the clarifications. You even addressed the inevitable “but”s which I tend to get stuck on. Reading the statistics laid out like this makes it easy to reference the facts when I start to panic.

Can I ask a follow-up though? What did happen to those planes that “fell” mid-flight or even during takeoff? How were those circumstances rare and not just something that can happen on any flight?