Washington, D.C. - The National Transportation Safety Board held a one-day forum on March 27, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the NTSB Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, DC. The forum focused on airport runway incursions and accidents, and potential safety solutions.

The Runway Safety Forum coincided with the 30th anniversary of the world's worst aviation accident - the runway collision in 1977 between two jumbo jets at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands. The accident took the lives of 583 people on board two 747s, operated by Pan American World Airways and KLM. Capt. Robert Bragg, the Pan Am co-pilot that day, will recount his experiences at the forum.

The scope of the problem, how to avoid runway incursions, educational initiatives and new technologies was highlighted by panels representing the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Defense, Flight Safety Foundation, Air Line Pilots Association International, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

A live and archived webcast of the forum is available on the Board's website at www.ntsb.gov.