The human factors in LAX safety

I cannot agree more with the argument in The Times' Nov. 22 editorial, "What LAX really needs,” that improving safety should be the highest priority at Los Angeles International Airport. However, improving safety at LAX cannot simply be achieved, as The Times suggests, by "reconfiguring the north airfield, where parallel runways built for and earlier generation of aircraft are too close together for safety operations." The root cause of LAX's safety problems lies elsewhere.

By Najmedin Meshkati

November 28, 2008