Deadly LaGuardia collision: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: An Air Canada jet collides with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport.
While the fire truck that struck the Air Canada jet on the LaGuardia Airport runway lacked a transponder that might have prevented the deadly accident, it apparently additionally lacked an intersection emergency automated braking system that many new vehicles have (“Confusion on comms for truck, tower,” March 25).
Both systems ought to be required for all airport automobiles.
Paul Kamenar
Chevy Chase, Md.
In listening to the call by the air site visitors controller to the fire truck, you hear the controller very casually say, “Stop, stop, stop.”
Why didn’t he scream it?
Perhaps the urgency in his voice might have made the truck stop sooner and keep away from the tragic aftermath.
Saul J. Mishaan
Brooklyn
Had the pilots of the Air Canada aircraft not begun to use the brakes as shortly as they did, it was very doable the aircraft might have been cut in half, inflicting severe loss of life.
These pilots made a split-second determination that saved the passengers’ lives, although they misplaced their own.
They ought to obtain the very best doable posthumous honors.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what went mistaken within the Air Canada crash: human error or present systems failure.
Apparently the air site visitors controller initially suggested the fire truck that it was secure to proceed, then recanted, repeating “stop.” It was both unheard or too late.
However, if the truck was outfitted with an automated emergency braking system, it might have stopped if the aircraft was instantly in its path.
The NTSB ought to in sure that such technology is put in in all automobiles on airport tarmacs to restrict the risk of one other catastrophe.
Larry Sylvester
Acton, Ontario
Despite the truth that air site visitors control gave the inexperienced mild to the fire-truck, the driving force ought to’ve waited by checking environment, and wouldn’t have missed the plane.
Ahmet Kaya
Jacksonville, Fla.
Sadly, we noticed what can occur when people are overwhelmed whereas working.
The Air Canada flight crashing into the fire truck at LaGuardia gained’t be forgotten, however one thing we study from.
Sharon Cesario
Brooklyn
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The Issue: A invoice requiring New York magnificence colleges so as to add “textured hair” schooling to their curriculums.
Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages co-authored a invoice requiring hair and cosmetology colleges in New York state to make “textured” hair schooling half of the overall curriculum (“Texture a must-’do at schools,” March 23).
As a magnificence skilled with curly hair, I say it’s great.
But Solages’ assertion that the suggestion for her to straighten her hair to look more skilled is a “form of discrimination” is the place we half company.
Can we simply stop wanting beneath rocks to search out grievances primarily based on race?
It was simply a suggestion, and has been made to me at occasions too
(I’m Caucasian).
How about specializing in the constructive?
Expanding magnificence schooling is great for stylists and shoppers, and doesn’t should be born from grievance to have advantage.
Michelle Graham
Lynbrook
Once again, the heavy bureaucratic hand of New York feels compelled to step in and “right a wrong,” of discrimination in yet one more space.
Rather than permitting {the marketplace} to appropriate an unmet need, the federal government steps with more burdensome regulation.
Here is a excellent alternative for sensible hair salons to carve out a service area of interest and seize a devoted buyer base: Train your stylists and promote a service experience.
Let {the marketplace} resolve its own issues.
J. Mancuso
Naples, Fla.
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