[jen20]

Regardless of whether flying is safer or not, the citation is incorrect: a passenger on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 died in 2018 following a contained engine failure.

[sebzim4500]

Fair point, although since I said "in a commercial airliner" and the passenger was partially ejected before dying I might be technically correct.

[jen20]

Ah, well by those criteria alone, PenAir 3296 in 2019 would probably win - a passenger died inside the plane after a runway excursion.