Quick-Witted Kiwis



The New Zealand Herald wins the best title-of-the-day award.

It's all looking a bit LAX

It also happens to be a very good article on the problems at Los Angeles International Airport -- LAX.

”Unless safety improved, warned the office bluntly, there was a high risk of a catastrophic runway collision occurring in the US.

The GAO suggested the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates US civil aviation, had downplayed the risk.

Airlines reported 65 incursions, the most, at LAX, America's second-largest international airport after JFK International in New York.

The trouble-prone airport, warned the
Los Angeles Times, is the US headquarters of potential disaster."

Don Brown
December 15, 2007

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