To the editor: After the Tuesday crash on Whiteman Airport grounds attributable to defective touchdown gear on a Cessna aircraft, L.A. County Board Supervisor Lindsey Horvath requested that operations on the airport “stop instantly” and said that she has “repeatedly known as for … corrective actions” on the a part of the federal authorities (“Another crash at L.A. County’s Whiteman Airport is sparking calls for federal reform,” June 16). In 2024, she enacted a freeze on federal grants for the airport, leading to deferred important infrastructure enhancements.
Along with being a house to the Los Angeles County Hearth Division’s air operations unit, Whiteman Airport is in a strategic location for fast aerial response throughout emergencies in foothill communities in addition to the San Fernando Valley. The airport is also an financial asset to companies and native jobs and has supplied youth aviation applications since 1971 for college students ages 8-17. I hope that each politicians and the general public will attend the upcoming June 27 Neighborhood Aviation Household Competition at this irreplaceable airport.
Katharine Paull, Kagel Canyon, Calif.
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To the editor: Airports don’t trigger accidents. Freeways don’t trigger accidents. Accidents are attributable to individuals, not by an airport or a freeway.
The hue and cry by the Board of Supervisors and Pacoima residents is to shut Whiteman Airport as a result of it’s harmful. However we haven’t heard a phrase about closing the three freeways surrounding Whiteman, which have way more accidents than any airport — together with Whiteman.
Trent Sanders, La Cañada Flintridge
