Aircraft Certification Office Manufacturing Inspection Office FAA oversight of aircraft design, flight test and production-foreign and domestic. How to get FAA information For information on operation of a local FAA facility Call the facility. See blue pages of your local phone book. For FAA operation information which involves more than one facility within a state Call the local coordinator. Call the regional Public Affairs office.
Reporters know that when there's an aviation accident, there is no central source for information.
The more a journalist knows beforehand about which source has what, the better. Air Accidents and the News Media' is out of print but if you can find a copy you will be worlds ahead of your colleagues in covering aviation. Word in the spring of '99 was that the booklet may be reprinted soon. On the following pages is some very general information of the sort found in the AWA booklet which will help a reporter with orientation. They are responsible for security of the crash site, notifying victims' next of kin and releasing names of victims to the news media when notification is complete.