Study on Improving Safety at LAX Due This Week
A year after a runway collision at Los Angeles International Airport killed 34 people, the Federal Aviation Administration and the city’s Department of Airports are expected to release a joint study on how to improve safety at the airfield.
The study, which is scheduled to be made public this week, was begun last November after a National Transportation Safety Board inquiry concluded that the Feb. 1, 1991, crash was caused by the FAA’s inept management of the airport control tower.
In addition to the air traffic control procedures in and around the nation’s third-busiest airport, the study has been focusing on the airport’s layout, navigational equipment and communications systems, according to members of the panel.
NTSB investigators strongly criticized the FAA in the collision of a USAir jetliner and SkyWest commuter plane, but the Department of Airports was not implicated.
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