Fifty percent composite airframe (read plastic) and its first fly-by-wire is Boeing’s new airliner aborning. If, as some speculate, Air France 447 crashed into the Atlantic May 31 because of lightning-induced electrical problems with its computers, Boeing’s robotic Dreamliner could turn into its Nightmare–and ours. But, then, with half the airline market already invested in fly-by-wire Airbus, well… There’ll be plenty of pain to go around.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Exactly my thoughts on the subject. But I read where they count statistics, and say that cars, trains and (especially) ships are still much more deadly… no choice.
I buy the cars and trains, especially Amtrak, but I don’t recall hearing of any ships going down lately. Maybe they mean Indonesian ferries.