The Crowded Skies: Is Your Next Flight Safe?

Today's airports, airlines and skies are more crowded than ever.  Do our overcrowded skies mean more than just the inconvenience of delays and cancellations? Has it become a question of safety? What are our alternatives as the situation escalates with the building of new airports and more runways?

These issues and new technologies that can help relieve our crowded skies and protect the consumer's safety are discussed this Sunday on Technogenesis®, a TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network.

Featured guests include David Field, Editor for the Americas at Airline Business Magazine, and Ed Jaekle, a retired American Airlines Captain. 

The Technogenesis program, "The Crowded Skies: Is Your Next Flight Safe?" airs at 7:30 p.m. on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays: July 29, Aug. 12, Aug. 26, Sept. 9. 

Ed Jaekle is a retired commercial pilot who served nearly four decades as an aviator with American Airlines and check airman at the Flight Academy in Dallas. He started in prop planes, moved to jets with the industry and ultimately flew the wide-bodies and the newest digitally operated aircraft. He's retired from commercial aviation but still flies. He is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology.

David Field is a 20-year veteran journalist who focuses on regulatory and political issues within the airline industry as well as airline management strategy. Prior to joining Airline Business Magazine, Field was an airline reporter for USA Today and other newspapers including Aviation Daily.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis programs feature government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

Hosted by Stevens President Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes two or more special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research.  The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts.  Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world.  Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.