US heli safety team gets FAA veteran as government co-chair

Wayne Fry, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight standards division manager for General Aviation Safety Assurance, is to make a comeback as  government co-chairman of the United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST). The team is a regional partner under the International Helicopter Safety Team, and was set up to lead a government and industry effort to reduce the number of helicopter accidents. Fry has been with the FAA for 25 years and has held management positions in the Flight Standards Regional offices in Seattle and Fort Worth, in the Flight Standards District Offices in Oklahoma City, Houston and Baton Rouge,