[turretslug]

I suppose this sort of thing has exercised the mind of man ever since he/she had a mind- hence the musing on the infinite number of monkeys with their infinite number of typewriters and a myriad other thought experiments. Plane crashes are (thankfully) usually very thoroughly researched and the frequent conclusion is that a series of events that were all individually quite unlikely all happened to fortuitously come together to produce a very unlikely event. That doesn't mean that it doesn't sometimes feel as though an evil genie is stirring a cauldron of catastrophe with one's own name on it somewhere though.

In short- no, they/it/life aren't out to get you! Each time I get stuck in unexpected traffic when I'm late anyway, or snap up that bargain that turns out to be a lemon, I try to reflect on all the other occasions when I got lucky.