So we've all seen the news about how there feels like an increasing amount of air traffic problems, crashes, and malfunctions in the air.

Despite this, conventional wisdom holds - air travel remains safer than any other form of travel.

For edification: the stats are broken up as total air travel and "Part 121" air travel (meaning, commercial air travel).

I was curious, decided to run a deep research report on it.

Sources in first comment.