The number 17 thing I had already noticed...but I am not a conspiracy theorist so I don't believe that has anything to do with it - a freaky coincidence - but that's it.
Mind you, my Mum has already said she doesn't want to ever fly Malaysian Airlines. She even said that she never wanted to fly on a 777 back when MH370 went down - a week later we were on one however I didn't tell her until we got back!
At least more people are paying attention to plane crashes, it shows that people don't want to experience such issues again in the future, i learned from a bit of research that 1985 was called the "year the planes came down" with many notables losses
I'm happy we live in a time that we don't have 20-30 major plane crashes killed at least a minimum of 50 in each crash. Its much rare now, although compared to recent years it has been quite a change.
I learned that 2009 was the last time we had major crashes occurring one after the other, 3 crashes in a month with a total loss of 548 deaths :/