Who Wants to Fly When Pilots Fall Asleep or Have Fistfights?

I’ve never flown in a commercial aircraft.  My ears give me problems.  Years ago we drove up to Colorado from Florida and in New Mexico I thought I was going to die from pain.  One ear did not pop.  A few years after that I was told that the eardrum of that ear was inverted.  So I have been afraid to get on an airplane.  I recently started thinking about an airplane trip and have been trying to get an appointment with an ENT.  Not too hard of course, they never returned my call and I haven’t tried again.  Anyway, yesterday I read on CNN that a Delta Airlines sub-company plane overshot it’s destination by one hundred and sixty miles.  Apparently the two pilots were too busy having a physical fight to pay attention to where the airplane was going.  Then the article talks about another airplane whose pilots fell asleep, overshot their destination and were awakened when the flight controller radioed and woke them up.  And yet again, it talked about another pilot who landed his commercial airplane not on the runway, which is where they land, but on the strip where all of the planes take off.  Now I’m wondering, should I bother to go ahead and get my ears fixed, or am I just lucky they have kept me from flying all of these years?