Recent aircraft accidents have raised the question of just how safe modern commercial aviation really is. NOVA looks at some of the problems and experimental efforts underway to deal with them.

NOVA Season 7 Episodes...

• s07e01 - A Plague on our Children
• s07e02 - Life On A Silken Thread
• s07e03 - Sweet Solutions
• s07e04 - Race For The Gold
• s07e05 - All Part of The Game
• s07e06 - India: Machinery of Hope
• s07e07 - The Bridge that Spanned the World
• s07e08 - Termites to Telescopes
• s07e09 - Blindness: Five Points of Views
• s07e10 - Elusive Illness (The)
• s07e11 - A is for Atom, B is for Bomb
• s07e12 - Living Machines
• s07e13 - Portrait of a Killer
• s07e14 - Umealit: The Whale Hunters
• s07e15 - The Safety Factor
• s07e16 - A Mediterranean Prospect
• s07e17 - Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.