Safer Skies
Kathleen Schalch's piece on NPR talks about the reduction in airline accidents due to onboard systems that help pilots avoid contact with terrain, windshear and other airplanes.
The risk of a major airplane accident is about 1/5 what it was in the 1990's. A MIT statistician says you could take one flight a day for 200,000 years before the odds that you would die in a crash start to become probable.