NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman accepts a Safe Kids Worldwide award, honoring the NTSB for 15 years of working to keep America's children safer. From left to right: Torine Creppy, Executive Director, Safe Kids Buckle Up, Chairman Hersman and Kate Carr, President and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide.

This week, the NTSB hosted 80 communications professionals from airports, airlines, manufacturers and government agencies from 12 countries at its training center in Ashburn, VA. The two-day training course provided guidance to employees who, in the event of an aviation disaster, would need to provide a steady flow of accurate information to media outlets, the public and other airport, federal or local authorities. During the course, Public Affairs Specialist Peter Knudson led a discussion about what to expect in the days immediately following an aviation accident.

Materials Engineer Joe Epperson was joined by representatives from the BEA, Eurocopter France and Eurocopter USA in the NTSB laboratory to examine the transmission from a recent helicopter crash in West Windsor New Jersey.