In Absolute Safety

There has been some blowback about yesterday's column about the German airliner that crashed. I know commercial aircraft have safety technology and built in redundancy that make them safer. Yet, jets still crash. I heard in the last twelve months, more than one thousand travelers have died or disappeared in commercial airline crashes and a vanishing. Someone said if I never leave the house, chances are I will be fairly secure. I guess that is true until the food runs out and I starve to death. I know no human endeavor is free of risk and am aware that there are things beyond these four walls worth seeing.