National Transportation Safety Board Chairman, Mark Rosenker discusses new safety technology and shares NTSB’s chilling forensic animation that reconstructs recent runway scares. In 1999 two planes at Chicago O’Hare airport missed each other by 80 feet, and a similar near-miss happened in 2005 in Boston. In an age when air travel safety is under constant scrutiny,, The Deadliest Plane Crash vividly dramatizes the need for renewed vigilance both on the ground as well as in the air. www.pbs.org/nova/planecrash

Photos: NOVA's The Deadliest Plane Crash — Two fully loaded 747 jumbo jets
collide on a fog-shrouded runway on the island of Tenerife, March 1977,
claiming the lives of 583 people, in what is still the deadliest crash in
aviation history. The Deadliest Plane Crash premieres on PBS's NOVA
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 8pm ET/PT (check local listings). (Galaxie Productions for NOVA)