"It gets a lot worse, when you look at the big picture".
I'm not sure what all those links are supposed to prove, besides that sh-t happens and no doubt continues to happen. When divorced from their proper statistical context, all those listings of plane crashes are virtually meaningless - statistical context which shows that while there are twice as many planes flying around today than there were 30 years ago, there are just as many crashes. In short, air safety has come a long way.
"There are many safety systems and solutions which have been deemed over-redundant (nuts), not financially viable so on".
Such as? Chances are though that if something is deemed over-redundant, then it likely IS over-redundant, considering that all key systems already have back-ups of some nature. And it certainly doesn't look either the airlines or manufacturers are doing much penny-pinching when it comes to improving their aircraft (for one example, Airbus recently had the doors of their A380 fleet changed because there were a couple of instance of leakage on the cruising altitude - an undertaking which cost them 100 million Euros, and it's not even really a safety issue).
"It would seem that in many cases, the airlines find it cheaper to pay damages for the people who die on their aircraft - than to prevent it from happening, in the first place".
That's a ludicrous assertation which, for one thing, conveniently forgets that paying damages isn't the only way airlines are liable to suffer as a consequence of a crash. They also have their reputation to consider and since people tend to be very mindful of things like dying in a plane crash, becoming associated with such morbid events or being perceived as "dangerous" is the last thing an airline can afford (in the 1990's, both Pan Am and USAir went bust in a large part because of public mistrust after high profile disasters).
"Have your own ver detailed weather reports".
You can certainly do that if you want to avoid the inconvenience of turbulence or something. Otherwise I don't see the use though, considering that modern aircraft have their own advanced on-board weather radars which, among other things, are capable of detecting wind shear. And no plane will fly into an outright stormcloud; all else, the planes are designed to be able to handle. Never heard of any crashes due to hot or cold weather, either.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
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