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Washington, D.C. - The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a three-day forum on the safety of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The forum will be convened April 29-30 in the NTSB Board Room and Conference Center in Washington. The forum will provide an opportunity for the Board and interested parties to understand the safety implications presented by the growing use of UAS in the National Airspace System.

In its continuing investigation of an incident in which a United Airlines Airbus A-320 jetliner departed the runway during landing at Wyoming's Jackson Hole Airport on the evening of February, 25, 2008, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has developed the following factual information during its on-scene investigation.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent two investigators to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to investigate an incident in which a United Airlines jet veered off the side of a runway.

In its continuing investigation of an uncontained engine failure that occurred on a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas (Love Field), to Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 17, 2007, the National Transportation Safety Board is revising and broadening its search for engine components that fell to the ground in a sparsely populated rural area of Texas.

Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the James Webb Space Telescope being built by Northrop Grumman. The electronics will convert analog signals to digital signals and provide better images to Earth.