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TEXACO, please keep your flag flying at CJIA

Dec 10, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
As we celebrated World Aviation Day yesterday (December 8th, 2008), I was shocked to read in your print press that the existing air traffic control system in Guyana is not safe.
This comment was made by a competent aviation personnel who was tasked to conduct an investigation into the near collision of the two aircraft.
I am left to wonder if it is because our dear President Bharrat Jagdeo was on the south-bound leg of the Delta Airlines flight into Guyana that at Cabinet a tender was made for $666 million (666 means the mark of the beast) to be spent on equipment upgrade etc. I am a little curious to know how this figure was arrived at so quickly.
Was a study done to know what equipment needed upgrading/replacing and what other areas needed improvement?
This situation occurred before in May this year, and nothing was done by the powers that be. Don’t the powers that be have any regards for the lives of cockpit crews, cabin crews and the passengers?
I would like to congratulate the cockpit crew of that outgoing Caribbean Airlines flight, BW484 on October 7th, for operating at safe distance, taking positive actions and having functioning aircraft equipment such as the Terminal Collision Avoidance System which allowed them to recognise that their flight path was not clear while at six nautical miles from the other aircraft. I shudder to think what it would be like if there was a collision in our airspace.
In closing, I would like to salute the air traffic control tower staff for their innovative ways of reading the wind speed and direction for their signals.
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention, so it was necessary for the air traffic control staff to invent a means by which to read the wind in the absence of the barometer. I say to TEXACO: “Please keep your flag flying at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.”
Frequent Flyer

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