I will always be convinced the amount of air traffic accidents hasn’t increased even remotely and that news outlets have simply found the newest fear mongering tactic that gets the conspiracy theorists going so they just report it more
On the Western Front during WW1 both sides fired so many artillery shells at each other that even today, more than a century later, farmers in the area regularly unearth unexploded ordnance. They call it the Iron Harvest, and its expected to continue for another 300 years.