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Join us on 19 June in the Hotel Grand Elysée  at 18:00 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our founding and the 12th Annual Gerhard Sedlmayr Lecture.

Reception

Welcome speeches

• Dr Hans-Henrich Altfeld FRAeS, founder of RAeS Hamburg Branch
• Alisdair Wood FRAeS , Immediate Past-President RAeS

Dinner

Annual Gerhard Sedlmayr Lecture 

The lecture will be given by Prof Graham Braithwaite FRAeS, Director of Aerospace and Aviation and Professor of Safety and Accident Investigation, Cranfield University 

Details of Lecture

On 22nd August 1985, 55 passengers and crew on board British Airtours flight 328 lost their lives when a fire ripped through the cabin after an uncontained engine failure and abandoned take-off. Forty years later, the lecture reflects on the many advances that have taken place to improve cabin safety and passenger survivability.

Graham Braithwaite is Director of Aerospace & Aviation at Cranfield University and Professor of Safety and Accident Investigation. He has over 30 years of experience in aviation safety, working with the likes of CAA, easyJet, Cathay Pacific, TUI, Airbus and Boeing on research and education projects. Graham joined Cranfield in 2003 to lead the internationally renowned Aircraft Accident Investigation course, which has now broadened into marine, rail, road, construction and healthcare. The activity was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2011 – the highest honour for a UK academic institution.

Graham served as an independent member of the TUI Safety Review Board 2011-25 and as Independent Safety Adviser to the British Airways Board since 2015. He became a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 2006.

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