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Sept. 5, 2003
The National Transportation Safety Board Opens Its
Doors
By Greg
Licamele
The third building at the Virginia Campus is about to take off. Employees
of the National Transportation Safety Board Academy are moving in this
week to the agency’s new facility. The academy’s mission is
to provide comprehensive education and training to those who improve safety
by conducting independent transportation accident investigations.
GW and the NTSB signed a 20-year lease to construct the building on previously
owned University property. The 72,000-square-foot, two-level facility
will contain five classrooms, an outside simulations court, meeting rooms,
and student and teacher work areas. The building also will house a large
laboratory for the three-dimensional, 93-foot reconstruction of the forward
portion of TWA Flight 800 aircraft’s fuselage. Reconstructing the
Boeing 747’s fuselage, which weighs 60,000 pounds, is the largest
aircraft reconstruction in civil aviation history.
An official grand opening celebration is scheduled for March 2004.
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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