 We've seen all the videos of plane parts flying off, wild turbulence throwing people around, and passengers fist-fighting in the aisles. But is it actually more dangerous to fly now? So ideally, these kinds of major errors are caught before doors fly off, but these incidents have led to a global grounding of 171 planes in January, and it's forced companies to do more rigorous quality checks. And even though turbulence is worse due to climate change, just keeping your seatbelt on severely reduces your risk of injury. Lastly, studies show that the amount of unruly passenger incidents has decreased since the FAA implemented more penalties for bad behavior. So given all this, flying in the U.S. has actually never been safer. In fact, in the last 15 consecutive years, we've had zero fatal commercial plane crashes.