Actually, the one where the guy is afraid of flying, avoids it his whole life and then crashes the first time he actually flies is ironic. I think you'd be right if none of the situations were ironic, but the fact that one is really ruins it for me.
I disagree about it being ironic.
Unless, in order to overcome his fear of flying, he decided to learn how to become a pilot, and crashed on his first lesson after the instructor said "now you have a go, Bob".
If he finally decided to take a flight because the plane proclaimed to be uncrashable, then it would be pretty ironic, no?