Plane crash in Heathrow = no terrorism

A plane lands short of the runway in Heathrow Airport.  Nobody gets hurt badly, fortunately.  The police is quick to issue a statement saying that the incident was not terror-related.  Now, who in their right minds would ever think that a crash-landing was caused by terrorists?  People, shit happens, stuff break down now and then.  Learn it, live with it, get over it. 

Life is great and terrorism is virtually a non-issue for national and personal security, in my view. Although now that I live in Seattle rather than in Denmark, Canada or the UK (countries where I used to live), I realise that people here generally think otherwise about this issue...

But they have no reason to: In the US about 42,000 people die every year in traffic accidents.  That's roughly equivalent to a half-loaded Boeing 737 crashing every single day. In Canada and the UK it's 3000-3500 traffic deaths every year.  Chances are much, much higher that you'll die as the victim of a traffic accident rather than from terrorism.  While we're at it: In the US the number of deaths due to traffic accidents has decreased 17% since the late 70's. In the UK and Canada the decrease was 45-50%...