American aviation has been having a tough year.
An American Airlines flight with 64 people on board colliding midair with a Blackhawk military helicopter.
The urgent search underway after a deadly crash, a plane crash in Alaska.
The air traffic controllers.
The systems are really old.
They should have been updated a long time ago.
The Newark.
Radar contact lost.
We lost our radar.
And as you'll hear on Today Explained, it might get rougher before it gets better.
But you're also going to hear about a Canadian comedian whose deadly...
serious about one particular solution.
He thinks pilots would crash less if they were simply better at talking to each other.
The captain has made a decision.
The first officer understands it's wrong,
but the first officer doesn't have the ability to speak up about it.
We're going to ask if he's got a point.
This is Peter Kafka, the host of Channels,
the show about what happens when media and tech collide.
And this week, I'm talking to Katie Drummond, who runs Wired.