No... It's hard to overstate how much safer flying (in well regulated countries especially) is than any other point in aviation history. It's incredible to look

No... It's hard to overstate how much safer flying (in well regulated countries especially) is than any other point in aviation history. It's incredible to look at the lists of accidents and incidents with aircraft from the 60s, 70s etc. - today the 737 Max is a huge outlier with the number of fatalities in two hull loss accidents, but if this was the 70s we'd probably have expected almost any model of plane to have had at least three or four similar accidents and a bunch more minor ones in the time the Max been around.