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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
MEDIA CONTACT: Helen Ryan |
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April 15, 2002 |
(703) 726-8303; hryan@va.gwu.edu |
GW VIRGINIA CAMPUS TO HOST
AVIATION SAFETY
AND SECURITY SYMPOSIUM
APRIL 17 - 18
Top Aviation Experts to Address Critical Security and Safety Culture Issues
| EVENT: | Aviation and Safety and Security Symposium, co-hosted by the GW Aviation Institute, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and the University Aviation Association. These organizations have partnered on this important symposium to bring together aviation experts from industry, government and academia to address critical issues in aviation safety and security. Highlighted presentations include a 911 Slide Show and “Killing in the Name of God: Osama bin Laden and Radical Islam” by Dr. Jerrold Post, GW Aviation Institute, professor of political psychiatry and international affairs. |
| WHEN: | Aviation
Safety and Security Symposium, April 17 – 18, 2002 Safety Culture Workshop, April 17 itinerary Aviation Security Seminar, April 18 |
| WHERE: | The GW Virginia Campus 20101 Academic Way, Ashburn, Virginia (at University Center, Route 7, one mile west of Route 28) |
| ITINERARY: | For a complete symposium schedule visit www.erau-dce.org/uaa. |
BACKGROUND:
The two-day symposium includes a Safety Culture Workshop on Wednesday, April 17 that will explore the importance of measuring and tracking aviation safety culture, and safety culture inventory in a flight education and training environment. On Thursday, April 18, the symposium offers a Aviation Security Seminar with a keynote speech by an Transportation Security Administration official and featuring leading aviation security experts, who will explore special topics in passenger screening, terrorist profiling, explosive detection technology and aircrew security issues.
Media interested in attending should contact Helen
Ryan at (703) 726-8303 to RSVP. To
learn more about the GW Aviation Institute: www.gwvirginia.gwu.edu/academics/aviation.
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