Recession in safety: Planes crashing like a dot-com Nasdaq startup

Ok, I have to take the time to ask what the HELL is happening in the friendly skies? Are there burning comets flying around, unbeknown to us, avoiding radar? Seems like when it rains it pours and this string of airplane accidents is getting a bit ridiculous and potentially scary.

• 3/23/09 - Cargo plane crashes at Narita airport in Japan
  
• 3/22/09 - Montana plane crash kills 17, including children
  
• 2/25/09 - Turkish Airlines plane crashes near Amsterdam
  
• 2/12/09 - Plane Crash In Buffalo New York Feb 12/09 49 People Killed
  
• 1/15/09 - US Airways Plane Crashes Into The Hudson River

These aren't experimental or test flights. These aren't non-commercial pilots. We're talking MONSTROUS aircraft falling out of the sky. So I am definitely going with the hidden comet theory.