I hope they ground all the turbo-props and give the flying to the better pilots who fly REAL airplanes so I can get my job back.

KIDDING OF COURSE!

It's like the sand-pile effect. To those who haven't heard of it: picture a sand-pile with a never-ending stream of sand pouring on top of it (like an hourglass). Sometimes a small part of the pile collapses and every once in a while a large part collapses. What I'm saying is that small collapses occur much more frequently than larger collapses (so the size of the pile is inversely proportional to the frequency of collapses). Anyways, the correlation I'm trying to make between it and aviation is that usually flying occurs without any problems. Often, very small things go wrong (VSI on a 172 fails in VMC, EFIS Comp Mon message in the RJ,etc). Sometimes, some bigger things go wrong (Lost Comms in VMC, having to punch through a line of thunderstorms during the summer at FL310, etc). Every once in a while we get ever bigger things to wrong (engine failure, landing gear problems). And some of the most rarest of occurences that occur include a crash.

The point I'm trying to make is that these things happen and they will always continue to happen from discovering a bad magneto during run-up to the unfortunate crashes like Flight 1549 and Flight 3407. So to ground aircraft will not stop these problems from occuring. Although we have experienced great technological advances during our time, we now have more things that can go wrong. We cannot stop these events from occuring. They are random events that occur and usually we walk away from them and come back the next day to continue doing something we love but unfortunately, tragic events do happen and all we can do to prevent them is timing (not being caught in a microburst on short final), brains (knowing not to be caught in a microburst on short final if the field is reporting wind shear or a t-storm is right over your approach path) and a little bit of luck.