All engine failures in commercial airlines happen about once every two years. Since 1953 there have been ~38 incidents where an airliner has been forced to gli

All engine failures in commercial airlines happen about once every two years. Since 1953 there have been ~38 incidents where an airliner has been forced to glide (I.e. complete failure of all propulsion). That’s 38 incidents in 68 years. The incident rate has been falling while flight numbers have been increasing. Since 2003 (it’s hard to get date before then) there have been ~600,000,000 passenger flights, and seven gliding incidents. So the odds of being on a plane with an all engine failure is around 1:80,000,000. Winning the lottery is around 1:45,000,000. As failure cases go, thats really not bad. In the US around 104 people die every day in traffics accidents. So if you wanna get hot and bothered about public safety, I would suggest you start there. Rather than criticising the safety procedures of the safest form of transport.