Air Safety Conference. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." class="extiw" title="w:Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> More than 200 representatives of the nation's airlines and technical experts from the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Air_Commerce" class="extiw" title="w:Bureau of Air Commerce">Bureau of Air Commerce</a> met at conference today to study recent air crashes with a view to preventing such accidents in the future. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Vidal" class="extiw" title="w:Gene Vidal">Gene Vidal</a>, Director of the Bureau of Air, presided at the meeting which was held at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Commerce" class="extiw" title="w:United States Department of Commerce">Department of Commerce</a>. In the photograph, left to right: (seated) O.A. Patterson, President of United Airlines; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._K._Jett" class="extiw" title="w:E. K. Jett">E.E. [<i>sic</i>] Jett</a>, Chief Engineer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" class="extiw" title="w:Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications</a>; Sidney Shannon, Operations Manager <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines" class="extiw" title="w:Eastern Air Lines">Eastern Airlines</a>; Eugene Vidal, Director of Bureau of Air Commerce; and Harland [<i>sic</i>] Hull, Chief Pilot of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA" class="extiw" title="w:TWA">TWA</a>
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