Hersman to Discuss Safety Before Aero Club

Deborah Hersman, the new chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), will address the Aero Club luncheon on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The event starts at 12 noon with check-in and a reception. The Aero Club luncheon is held at the Capital Hilton Hotel, located at the corner of  16th & K Street, NW, Washington, DC. Hersman, who has been a member of the Safety Board for the past five years, was recently sworn in as the Safety Board’s 12th chairman. Hersman was nominated for the two-year term as chairman by the While House and confirmed by the U.S,  Senate on July 24. She was also nominated and confirmed for a second five-year term as a board member, which runs through December 31, 2013. Hersman joined the NTSB on June 21, 2004. In 2006, she chaired a two-day public hearing investigating a fire on board UPS Airlines flight 1307.  She also chaired a three- day public hearing in June 2005 on a crash involving a regional jet in Jefferson City, Missouri. Before joining the NTSB, she was a senior professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation from 1999 to 2004.