To the editor: Not lengthy after President Reagan fired the striking air traffic controllers and partially changed them with scabs and rapidly educated replacements, I used to be a Trans World Airways flight attendant bringing espresso to a 747 cockpit crew when all hell broke unfastened. We have been on the taxiway heading for the entry to the runway when on the similar time, one other 747 was heading towards us on the similar velocity and similar distance from the runway entry, establishing a head-on collision.
The yelling backwards and forwards from each cockpits to the nonresponsive tower was terrifying. Happily, earlier than the tower responded, each 747s jammed on the brakes. We have been so shut. To today, I can nonetheless see the face of the opposite 747 captain.
The present White Home occupant has been flying in his personal non-public jets lengthy sufficient to have the ability to perceive the ramifications of shaving the Federal Aviation Administration workforce as severely as his administration has (“Jet collides with fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. 2 pilots killed,” March 23). The deadly penalties are on him. Nobody else.
Sara R. Nichols, Los Angeles
