All Five Board Members Expected To Attend And Participate

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published the final agenda, including invited presenters, for its two-day Public Aircraft Oversight Safety Forum which will take place November 30-December 1, 2011, in the NTSB Conference Center and Board Room in Washington, D.C. The NTSB also released a short video highlighting the issues that will be featured at the forum.

NTSB Chair Deborah A.P Hersman

NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman will chair the forum and all five Board Members will participate. The forum, which will start at 9:00 a.m. on both days, is open to all and free to attend (there is no registration). Seating is limited to 350.

Public aircraft are operated by a federal, state or local government for the purpose of fulfilling governmental functions, such as firefighting, search and rescue, law enforcement, wildlife or land management, or aeronautical research. Government organizations conducting public aircraft operations supervise their own flight operations without oversight from the FAA.

Seven panels of invited experts from federal, state, and local government entities, aviation industry trade associations, and civil operators contracting with government entities will address subjects including:

• Defining public aircraft
• Defining oversight
• The role of the FAA in public aircraft oversight.
• The oversight of government-owned and contracted aircraft.
• Contractors' perspective on public aircraft operations.
• The role of organizations representing public aircraft operators and contractors.

At the conclusion of all presentations for each subject area, presenters will take part in a question and answer discussion with Board Members and NTSB staff.

Questions may also be submitted by any organization or individual for consideration as part of the question and answer discussions. Questions should directly address one or more of the forum's seven topic areas (identified by the panel titles) and should be submitted to publicaircraft@ntsb.gov no later than Friday, November 25, 2011.

The event will also be webcast live by the NTSB.

FMI: www.ntsb.gov