Cleaning up matters from the old year

Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers

The [recent crash] of an Azerbaijan Airlines jetliner in Kazakhstan, if officially confirmed as a shootdown, would be the third major fatal downing of a passenger jet linked to armed conflict since 2014, according to the Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety Network, a global database of accidents and incidents. The tally would bring to more than 500 the number of deaths from such attacks during that period. 

So if you're making travel plans for the coming year, try to route around the coming wars.