A few years ago I sat through an excellent presentation by the Chief Test Pilot of Westlands, concerning a messy but thankfully non-fatal loss of an aircraft in flight test.
One of the many lessons he admitted to learning from that accident, was the importance of including the
PR department in the disaster planning. When something had gone wrong, it was far better that
PR should know what, and what information they could pass out than either the
PR dept trying to work it our for themselves, or journalists trying to bypass them in frustration.
Just a thought.
G