Airline safety news is trending at the wake of a Southeast Asian airliner alleged tragedy that occurred Sunday morning. A Yahoo! Travel article reported that the fatalities from Air Asia 8501 flight off to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia may have gotten people to think twice as to ways to ensure air travel safety.

Take this for your airline safety news for the day: How can a commercial airliner with no fatality records in the past incur such tragic accident? How can a safe aircraft model tragically crash? Air Asia has had no fatalities since it started operations in its native Malaysia in 2001. Its Airbus A320 plane has safely flown 13,600 flights without any accident.

The surprising theory about air safety travel may or may not surprise you. The founder of the aviation website, nycaviation.com, Phil Derner, gave his take about the odds of being 100% safe while travelling on a plane:

"In the United States, the odds of dying in a plane crash are the same as being struck by lightning seven times,"

"Automotive fatalities in the U.S. stand at 25,000 per year, while fatalities due to airline accidents in the U.S. average in the single digits, if any at all."

In a data released by the International Air Transport Association in 2009, it was revealed that even if an individual gets on a plane for 3,859 years, the chances of experiencing air accidents are unlikely going to occur.

Having said these theories and facts, readers should get clearer views about the airline safety news feasibility on their decisions to fly smarter and safer.