I'm really not trying to be dismissive but the reason you feel like these things are happening more often than they used to is precisely
because you don't fly super often. More than 45,000 flights a day are handled by the FAA, not including commercial air traffic initiated by other countries. The odds are still exceedingly low for major incidents.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers
In fact there's actually been fewer incidents this year than this time last year, there's just been way more media attention being paid to them. As folks keep saying in this thread.