On January 5th of this year, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 takes off from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California. While still in the climb, a panel that is supposed to safely close one of the rear deactivated emergency exits shoots out into the open – the Boeing 737-9 returns to Portland. Just three days earlier, a Japan Airlines Airbus A350 collided with a Coast Guard De Havilland Dash-8 while landing at Tokyo Haneda Airport, killing four people. Only four, one would almost have to say given what could easily have happened.