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Modern air travel is safer than it's ever been. That's what the numbers show. But several

high profile incidents involving passenger planes since the beginning of the year have highlighted that things can still go wrong

and how scary it can be.

An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a portion of the plane blew off in midflight.

That panel ripped away at about 16,000 feet which left a gaping hole in the aircraft. Footage from Hanada Airport shows a Japan Airlines passenger airplane on fire.

It makes it all the more remarkable that everyone's off this aircraft in one piece.

But could future generations of airplanes make problems like these a thing of the past?

Our commercial airliners are smarter electronically today than they've ever been. They're constantly recording. They're constantly

constantly monitoring they're constantly connected

Anthony Brickhouse is an associate professor at Embry Riddle

aeronautical University.

He runs their Aerospace Forensic Laboratory,

and he used to work at the National Transportation Safety Board.

He says all the data that planes generate today

when they're running normally, as well as from accidents,

are helping engineers design better systems and stronger materials to make future airplanes

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