Only if you ignore the hundreds of thousands of prominent politicians who have safely been flying around the skies since 1972.
How many company executives have died in plane crashes in the last third of a century?
I bet the percentage of politicians that have died in "questionable" (can't define that) circumstances/small plane crashes in the last X years is much higher than the the percentage for the rest of the population.
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