Where do incidents happen?
Crashes predominanetly happen in wealthier countries with the United States being an extreme outlier. There are over 10,000 more plane owning individuals in America then the second highest country and plenty of airspace to experiment in!
Despite China and India's large populations, the two have a relatively safe records compared to other populous neighbors such as Indonesia and Japan.
Even with a relatively high number of small aircraft, most African countries only have "those few incidents". Meanwhile, flying planes is becoming a increasingly popular hobby in South American Countries...
Who makes incidents happen?
Boeing. Boeing makes crashes happen.
Currently there are more Airbus A320's in the air than Boeing 737's yet Boeing's signature craft is far and away the leader of Aircraft Incidents.
Boeing's other craft don't fall far from the tree with the 747, 757, and 767 all scoring more incidents than either of Airbus or McDonnell Douglas's biggest offerings.
Embraer mostly makes smaller aircraft, combined with their manufacturing prowess, the result is an impressively small number of incidents.
With the recent Boeing 737 Max crisis, here's hoping Boeing lives up to their slogan, Forever New Frontiers.
Will an incident kill you? The plane? Should you even book a flight?
The short answer is, well, no. The vast majority of incidents did not result in death.
Even so, the majority of planes were reportedly put out of commission by incidents, with over half of known incidents causing substantial damage all the way to destruction.
The only question that remains... ...should you book that flight? The vast majority of airplane incidents are on scheduled flights but given that over 90% of current airborn flights are scheduled commercial flights, the statistics are actually in favor of being safer if scheduled. So go ahead, what are you waiting for, book that vacation!