European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 27, 1888 the stars and stripes Airport safety rated by airline pilots Dallas is fops los Angeles most dangerous p fax Nurtis Sergiu Atlanta commercial pilots con Sider Las Angeles International he Ita Lian s Mast dangerous major Airport White they rate Dallai fort Worth inter National the safest an Atlanta journal Constitution poll shows. Even though Many pilots polled say Peak hour congestion coupled with Lousy weather ran make even the a i airports risky they give High Marks to the world busiest air centers Atlanta s Hartsfield International and Chicago o Hare International. In written comments the pilots Praise air Ira tic controllers Al Harts Fjeld and o Hare Tot keeping things clicking with precision. Ironically o Hare also made the list of the five least Safe airports which i addition of los Angeles International includes Washington s National and new York s Laguardia. San Diego s Lindbergh Field and Den ver s Stapleton International were in a virtual tie for the fifth spol. Also on lie list of safes airports were Washington s Dulles which until recent years was used Only sparingly and so Altic Tacoma International. In february and March the atlant journal Consoli Juliun polled 2.200 pilots who hold air transport certificates and 1,360 responded by mail or phone inter views. More than hair included written  newspaper Mcd the pilots to list in no special order the five safes and Leas Safe Aii parts. The pilots named More than 100 airports from the big pics to those in Scranton pa., and Amah Llo. Tsas. In their comments Many pilots argue thai there is no meaningful Way to rate airports for safety. Airports especially the major ones Are virtually inter o Hare International Airport changeable these pilots say. The Best airports have plenty of Lont straight runways equipped with state of the Art approach aids the pilots  important however is the in Iron men weather mountains build Ings in flight paths. And if the people who operate the Airport and direct and Fly the planes Don t know what they arc doing the rest of inc variable Don t really matter much the pilots say. In general pilots prefer airports built after world War ii. Dallas fort Worth rated the safest Airport is also the new est. It was completed in 1974 on 17,000 acres of a sprawling Flat cattle ranch Midway Between downtown Dallas and fort Worth. The Airport has is Long run ways one stretching to 11.388 feet and sophisticated approach aids. Two of the least liked airports were built when Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House and a third was built Dur ing inc Coolidge administration. Washington National opened in 1941, has three Short runways the Long est of which is Only 6,869 feet. Laguar Dia opened in 1939, handled 364.000 flights in 1987 on its two 7,000-Footcrisscrossing strips. San Diego i Lind Bergh of tied opened in 1928. But the Airport rated most dangerous lies a continent away with the Pacific Ocean to its West the san Gabriel mountains to its can and smoggy. Noise edgy los Angeles to it Northeast. More than a third of the pilots who responded to in poll put Lea Angeles International on their least Safe list. The traffic into lax offers a varied Mil of Small planes and jumbo jets a mix that airline pilots particularly Dis like. Any Airport that to diet Light air Craft and commercial Jet aircraft is less Safe in direct proportion to the number of Light aircraft using the facility one Pilot writes. Light aircraft Are difficult to see and often do not show up on air traffic control  in 1987, More near collisions Werc re ported in California s skies than any other state according to a journal con Ili Lulion analysis of Federal aviation administration data. Pilots reported 157 car collision Over California nearly a Quarter of All the reports hied nation wide. Of those. 136 involved at least one Airliner and Zuj of those incidents were rated critical meaning Only Chance kept the planes from colliding. The smallest Airport in terms of traffic on the list is san Diego s Lindbergh Field. Pilots write that the Airport on the Banks of san Diego Bay is plagued by new downtown buildings and the mountainous terrain to the East. One Pilot Sayi Landing in san Diego is like Landing in the Bottom of a shoe  Denver s mile High Stapleton is among the nation s most severely congested air ports and is surrounded by the Rock mountains. The Airport is besieged by ice and Snow in the Winter and unpredictable winds the Rusl of the year ibis write. Coast guard jets modified to track smugglers Washington a a newly modified coastguard jul that has radar and infrared systems will enable pilots to lock onto and track suspected drug traffickers planes through Clouds or darkness. The first of a Fleet of nine nighthawks As they Are nicknamed was dedicated at a ceremony monday in a hangar Al National Airport. It s a particularly bad Day for those who would smuggle drugs into Liis country Aden Paul a. Yosl commandant of the coast guard said Al the dedication. Now that i be got these aircraft i say to inc drug smugglers two things if you re in the business i d look for other employment and you can run but you can l  Yost said. The planes which will initially be based in Miami and Mobile ala., Are modified versions of the coast guard s medium Range surveillance Jet the Hu-2saguardian, built by Falcon jul corp. Of Little Rock Ark they have been equipped with a sensor system that combines the Long Range radar used in inc f-16fighter jul with a Forward looking infrared or fur sensor. Previously coast guard Planck were equipped with a radar system designed to track ships and no infrared at All said i. Bob Quirt the coast guard Pilot who flew the first completed Nighthawk to Washington for the dedication before we did not have any Altitude information on the target planes we did not have any  information besides what we could judge with our eyeball quirk said. This Jet is twice As fast As any other coast guard plane said sen. Alfonse m. D Amato r-n.y., who appeared at the dedication. It can Fly Al 380 knots at 20 000 feel above sea level for five hours up to 2,045  transportation Secretary James Burnley who Alio participated in the ceremony said the United states is under siege by drug dealers. When you re under attack by n formidable enemy. You be got to have stale of the Art weaponry and you be got 10 have  he said. The project which Cost approximately s7 Mil lion for All nine jews including training for about to pilots was funded through the anti drug abuse act ofl98o. Yost predicted that eventually All the planes would be based in Miami to Stem drug smuggling from the Caribbean. City Board rejects anti Fonda Resolution Waterbury Conn. Api the City s Board of aldermen on monday Defeated a Resolution against welcoming Jane Fonda when she comes to film  of the movie Union Street this summer. The 11-2 Vole with two abstentions was a Sci Fordt Tor the anti Fonda Campaign led by a group of veterans still bit Ter Over the movie Star s 1972 trip Loha Noi during which she was photo graphed on a North Vilna Misc anti air Craft gun. The proposed Resolution slated that the City would not extend Fonda any official Welcome symbolic or  the Campaign led by retired connect Cut National guard Gen. Gactano rus reached a peat sunday when be tween 700 and 1,200 protesters rallied against Fonda in it City Park. Guy Russo has been claiming he Speaks for veterans and Vietnam Veter ans and represents the sentiment of peo ple in water Biry said Stephen Rivers a spokesman for the actress. Bui what we found is that he does t speak for veterans or Vietnam veterans and that he does t speak for water  earlier monday an informal coalition of seven protestant and roman Catholic clergymen called on Fonda s critics to devote their energies to Graver problems including those facing veterans and warned that the Brouhaha Over her plans to film a movie Here could turn violent. Fonda is planning to film  of Union sir Sci Here during the summer using As a backdrop he cd juice red Brick factories and houses of Waterbury a working class City of about 100,000 witha Large immigrant population. The movie based on a novel by the same name of cols the Story of a working class woman s efforts to climb the social ladder and teach an illiterate Man thread. It will also Star Robert Deniro. In March the Board of Alderman in Chicopee mass., passed a measure Simi Lar to he one Defeated in Waterbury. Riven said the Chicopee Board bowed to the complaints of a few veterans. On sunday during a protest in Liberty Park the actress depicted As a North vietnamese Soldier in a funnel shaped hat was hanged in effigy from a tree near the bandstand which was decorated with a huge Black and White pow-m1a nag. Mary Hill whose brother died in Viet Nam 20 Yean ago. Said she could no forgive Fonda for going to North Vici Nam in protest of the War Why should my brother have fought in thai country while she was Over then dancing with he enemy Allied Hill. Tears streamed Down Hill s face As she clutched the Silver Star awarded posthumously to her brother fran i Leblanc felled by a sniper s Bullet As he tried to Rescue wounded comrades in a Rice Paddy. A  the Rev. Edmund Nadolny displayed a sign that said Tel he who is without sin cast the first  riven who was in town for the Alder men s meeting said plans to film inc Pic Ture in july or August arc proceeding full Speed ahead despite protests. Seven members of the clergy released statement saving further inf Lalima Lory rhetoric will Only Lead to the creation of a climate of violence that will be detrimental to this